For a movie to be in the thriller genre can have numerous causes, but the one sure thing is that it will be filled with suspense. Because the term is so broad, usually it is accompanied with another genre, the most common being action, horror, or fantasy and science-fiction. With thrillers there’s often a sense […]
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10 Rip-Off Movies That Become Cult Classics
Truth be told, the word “rip-off” has an unfair connotation. It’s what you call everything from plagiarism to grifting, both as an exclamation — “What a rip-off!” — and an insult, wherein one is a “rip-off artist”. But exploitation filmmaking exists in a topsy-turvy world in which good is pretentious and bad is punk, so […]
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10 Great Movies That Masterfully Blend Film And Theater
Andre Bazin wrote explicitly about film and theater in his two-volume work, “What Is Cinema?” There was much debate about the originality, adaptation, and staging of early films that continued to be discussed and discovered over the history of cinema. Now, films and theaters are completely different, but certain films and filmmakers fuse the reality […]
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10 Great Bizarre 1990s Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Many would dare say that the 1990s rank pretty high when it comes to the most fruitful decades for the art of cinema. This period gave us wonderful classic dramas of Hollywood, such as “Forrest Gump” and “Shawshank Redemption”, a few grittier mainstream titles of early Quentin Tarantino, and a rebirth for world cinema in […]
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10 Famous Movie Villains That Were Fatally Miscast
Some of the most memorable performances in the history of cinema have come from great actors playing the dastardliest of villains. Whether it’s the sublime subtleties of Anthony Perkins’ performance as Norman Bates, the masterful physicality of Heath Ledger’s Joker or even the unforgettable voice of James Earl Jones coming out from behind the mask […]
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10 Great European Horror Movies You May Have Never Seen
Europe and horror go a long way. Already in the 1920’s we see the German Expressionist movement, which is responsible for such classics as ‘Nosferatu’, ‘The Golem’ or ‘Dr Caligari’. From there on out horror was there to stay and occasionally flair up; like the Giallo films from Italy and the New French Extremity starting […]