Ok movie buffs – If you had to choose a single year in horror film history to put into a time capsule for future generations, what year would it be? The task is a daunting one, and for some film fans it may set the scene for their own personal horror show. Ever since 1896’s […]
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The 10 Best Agnes Varda Documentaries
Agnes Varda is an auteur filmmaker commonly associated with the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave Movement. Her career spanned from the 1950s until the late 2010s, during which she made a name for herself as both a fiction and non-fiction filmmaker. Impressively, the quality of films never wavered during her long career as evidenced […]
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The 20 Best Horror Movies of 2020
Wow. Well, now that 2020 is finally in the rear view it’s safe to say that, as challenging and worrisome as the year was, it was an exceptionally strong year for genre films. The following list of 20 horror titles rates and ranks what have been Taste of Cinema’s favorites for the year, but it’s […]
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The 10 Darkest Noir Films of The Classic Era
Once the U.S. entered the Second World War, it become necessary for Hollywood to address certain aspects of grim reality which post-Depression era cinema had specialized in ignoring. After the war had ended, reality seemed to become even grimmer, and filmmakers responded by showing audiences a version of the world in which Hollywood’s conservative, romantic […]
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The 10 Best New Year Movies
Let’s all say it proudly: 2020 sucked! 2020 was booty, from the coronavirus death toll to no hyped movies being released. Everyone’s ready for a new year and a fresh start, but will 2021 be any better? Probably not. Years aren’t good or bad, life doesn’t get better depending on the year- people get better, […]
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10 Great Picaresque Movies To Stumble Across The World With
The picaro from the Spanish for ‘rogue’ or ‘rascal’ describes an archetype of hero found in literary classics like Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Voltaire’s Candide and fulfilled in the filmic mainstream by characters like Tom Hanks’ Forrest Gump, that certain brand of travelling everyman to which the world always seems to happen to, and who […]