6 Reasons Why “The Hurt Locker” Is One of The Best Modern War Movies

There’s one genre in cinema that attracts some of the greatest directors of all time, from Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Christopher Nolan – films about war. They have been brought to the screen by many legendary filmmakers who all try to capture the bravery, insanity, […]

The 10 Most Disturbing Film Scores of All Time

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There are plenty of disturbing themes a movie can have, but without the correspondent acoustic part, the film couldn’t unfold its full range of fright. While a lot of movies, especially uninspired and cliche-dripping horror films, rely on sleazy shock moments, the real brilliance and power of musical scariness lays in something more subtle. The […]

7 Reasons Why “Eyes Wide Shut” is Stanley Kubrick’s Most Underrated Film

It’s 1996. Stanley Kubrick has been discussing a project with global superstar Tom Cruise for well over a year. This discussion also entails Kubrick demanding tapes of the work of actress Nicole Kidman who was, at the time, Cruise’s wife. This project has been gestating and forming shape in Kubrick’s head for some three decades. […]