We love to watch biopics and seeing how famous figures are portrayed by great actors and witnessing the big events of their life. However, biographical films can also be tricky. If you can’t come up with a good approach, enough passion for the material, or if you can’t add depth to a well-known story, it […]
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10 Great Movies That Defined Generation X
Generation X was perhaps the first to be hassled in their twenties by mass media buzzwords predicting their failure. The irony (something they loved) was that they contributed a wealth of innovative cinema that made the 90’s the most transformative era in film since the much heralded 70’s. Pretty good for so-called “slackers”. Perpetually forgotten […]
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10 Great Thriller Movies On Netflix You’ve Probably Never Seen
Netflix has been repeatedly criticized for its choice of films by the refined film buffs, who claim that it relies too much on the mainstream, leaving little to no space for world cinema or imaginative works that dare think outside the box. While it is arguably true that Netflix does give the most space to […]
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10 Great Anti-Detective Films For The Post-Truth Era
There is a moral in detective fiction perhaps put best by a slogan of The X-Files, a science fictional inheritor of the genre: The Truth is out there. More than the conviction of evidence for extraterrestrial life this is in the context of the show, this phrase also speaks to a belief in objective truth, […]
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10 Forgotten But Not Forgiven Fantasy Films of The 1980s
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” Gordan Gekko told us – and we believed him. It was the 1980s. The experimentation and comparable restraint of the American New Wave had crested and crashed, flooding 80s cinema with cheap excess. What had been operatic overload with a point in Siegel, Kubrick and Lucas […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces of South Korean Cinema
After Parasite rocked the world last year, people finally started paying attention to South Korean cinema. This is long overdue when you consider the nearly boundless assortment of quality films coming from the area. The average cinephile might be frustrated that it took so long for people to suck it up and read some subtitles, […]