The capacity of cinema to evoke authentic and powerful feelings from its audiences is one of its greatest abilities as a medium. Through its manipulation of images and sounds it can strike its audience into such an engagement with fiction that they feel compelled to react as if it were reality. Cinema can offer its […]
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The 10 Scariest Movie Villains of All Time
The funny thing about writing this article is that, generally speaking, I’m not one to feel fear when watching movies. It’s usually upon examining the fear it represents is when I truly feel the disturbing forces the films projections. So go ahead and consider this arbitrary but then again every opinion one has on a […]
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The 10 Best Movies on Media Violence
There are mainly two ways in which media is portrayed on film. First, there are those movies that present journalism as a heroic, moral profession, where the journalist is a truth-teller, a presenter of factual information, often risking imprisonment or even life to bring the news to the public. Movies like “All the President’s Men”, […]
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10 Films That Will Make You Hate Movies
Film’s ability to manipulate our personal opinions and moral code is unrivaled in the many arts. The big screen can subvert our expectations and unintentionally influence everything we know. Growing to hate the art form is feasible because of the incredibly vast array of material available. Abysmal films and superb films alike can provoke cynical […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces That Will Change Your Notion of Cinema
Like music, like painting, like all the other arts, cinema in its artistic form has been looking for its own essence since its beginning, and hasn’t yet found a definitive, fixed one. We could say that its very essence is to look for that essence, through all the possible combinations of its components (sound, silence, […]
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All 18 Episodes of “Love, Death & Robots” Ranked From Worst To Best
The anthology genre is one of the most interesting in the mediums of both cinema and television, presenting audiences with imaginative collections of bite-sized stories bound by a single idea. From the notion of technology as a means to an end in Black Mirror, to the colorful and campy world of horror in American Horror […]