Joel Schumacher was, among many things, a versatile director. The man has made a war film, a vampire classic, romantic comedies, teen dramas, courtroom movies, a musical, a biography, an action film, and so on. He was a journeyman director who always explored different genres and didn’t mind tackling almost controversial, unusual themes for Hollywood […]
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The 20 Best Action Movies of The 2000s
It is strange that the films of the early 21st Century now seem “retro,” and that the early developments of the digital era are quite different from the world of cinema today. Compared to the action films of the 90s, which included a mix of high camp and more experimental auteurism, action cinema in the […]
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10 Great Recent Arthouse Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
In the resistance against a globalized world, it becomes necessary to rescue the authentic vision of an auteur cinema because we can see, through its sensitivity, what we are as society. Films that include its director in the plot in an intimate way or denunciate about a social reality let us understand cinema as a […]
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The 10 Best Cottagecore Movies
Pictures of dainty cottages, flower crowns, and homemade jars of jam have been inundating social media feeds for the past couple of months. The creators (and reposters) of these images are likely part of the “cottagecore” aesthetic, an online subculture based around a desire to escape the harsh, sterile modern landscape through the imagery of […]
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10 Great Debut Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
The last ten years have seen filmmakers burst onto the scene in dynamite fashion, from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014) to Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014), Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) to Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018), Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2017) to Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade (2018). The first film seems a crucial one that […]
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10 Great Cult Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Movies designated with cult status draw special audiences because they’re so very different and so much more provocative than mainstream movie fare. The cult film experience differs from conventional cinema by appealing to unique sensibilities, be it the counterculture, genre films, or niche designs that joyfully indulge in taboo content and proscribed subject matter that […]