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Nicolas Cage is the most enigmatic leading man in Hollywood history, polarizing audiences and critics for decades. He’s given countless brilliant performances and phoned in even more with his movies ranging from acclaimed dramas to action-packed blockbusters to dumpster B-movies. Starting out with the help of his uncle, legendary director Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Cage started making a name for… Read more »
Sometimes audiences can avoid revisiting a film they enjoyed because of its length, not wishing to commit hours of their time to something they have already seen and instead opting to watch something new. However, these films are much too tempting, offering so much more with every repeat viewing. These choices range between two and a half hours and four… Read more »
Killer kids, chilling children, and oppressed orphans populate a catalogue of dark movies with similar, but not homogeneous themes. One category of films features young protagonists driven by circumstances beyond their control to a life of darkness they otherwise would have never known. Unlike the more sensational stories featuring purely psychopathic kids, these characters have adapted a sinister lifestyle as… Read more »
Over time, I’ve begun to get extremely bored with modern blockbusters. I’m tired of being told that I should care about the next Marvel, the next cinematic universe, or another pointless live-action remake of a Disney classic. I’m tired of the business-politics involved, knowing that certain movies were altered in order to appeal to the Asian market. I’m tired of… Read more »
The term “overrated” is tough for writers because it’s hard to define what makes a movie overrated. If a movie is critically acclaimed but commercially under-the-radar, can it be considered overrated? Similarly, if a movie is a smash hit with everyone besides critics, can we define it as overrated? Because of this loose definition, the following list may be inconsistent… Read more »
There are many films that have risen to infamy over the last eighteen years; some of them are fantastic, and some of them are downright terrible. This list will attempt to address numerous examples that aren’t discussed so often. It would be easy to include films like Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, or Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible, but these films are mentioned… Read more »
The Academy Awards are what separate the wheat from the chaff in Hollywood. There are a number of controversies surrounding the Academy’s voting methods, including a lack of diversity on the board and less appreciation for bigger-budgeted blockbuster movies than smaller arthouse fare, but generally, the Oscars decide which movies and movie-makers are considered to be the best and brightest…. Read more »
The possibilities of the cinematic medium are so huge for an artist, that rarely have we seen stories told on the silver screen that happen entirely in one setting. That’s more of a theatre thing, screenwriters must reckon, and in fact a lot of single-setting movies are stage adaptations looking to be faithful to the original text. However, some directors… Read more »
The first time is always memorable. And for filmmakers embarking on their feature length directorial debuts, it is only a matter of time before their efforts are judged by audiences, possibly from across the world. Of course not every debut makes an impact, and first films can come from a myriad of different people. A directorial debut can come from… Read more »
As of August 2018, Michael Fassbender is 41 years old. Unless he retires from acting, Fassbender will be nominated for another Oscar, Golden Globe or BAFTA award within the next decade. His Hollywood career has displayed a range between mammoth success (being a staple of the X-Men and Alien franchises), to having eight films on his resume that grossed less… Read more »
It’s no hidden secret that there are a lot of films listed on Rotten Tomatoes with outrageously high scores. Once upon a time, a film-lover could look up a film on Rotten Tomatoes and get a rough idea if it is worth watching or not. It was simple, any film with more than 60% favorable reviews was deemed ‘fresh’, anything… Read more »
As the long running popularity of horror films attest, people enjoy a good scare. It can be the shared excitement, the cheap thrill, or the therapeutic release that accounts for at least some of the populism behind getting scared silly, but some films take pains to dig a little deeper and to uncover irrational and pathological frights that deeply affect… Read more »
The last eight years have been filled with lots of great horror movies, to the point where we might say that the 2010s are one of the best – if not the greatest – decades for horror movies. James Wan gave us “Insidious” and “The Conjuring.” A24 produced “The VVitch” and this year’s “Hereditary.” “Get Out” won an Academy Award… Read more »
There are so many exciting and powerful performances in film that receive recurring praise and admiration. The roles that tend to stand out are the ones often described as “intense”; performances of great magnitude and strength. To understand what many mean when they talk about an intense performance, one only has to glance at Robert De Niro’s work with Martin… Read more »
In order to translate a written work into moving pictures, some crimes must be committed. With books, we create the visuals with our imagination; a good movie brings those visuals to life. Also, despite the numerous failed attempts to convert a full length novel into a compact yet captivating visual story, the notion that film adaptations are invariably inferior to… Read more »
Did you ever notice a particular moment in a film that stands out amongst the rest? Something that made you freeze for a second and maybe not even pay attention to the moments that followed afterwards? Maybe your jaw was dropped, or your brain was processing what had just happened. It’s time to celebrate moments like this, because we may… Read more »
