Halloween may have passed, but that doesn’t mean spooky season is over. For fans of horror, spooky season is all year round, especially when you consider the sheer quantity of horror movies being released week-by-week. COVID-19 may have helped push the big blockbusters to 2021, but plenty of horror flicks have still made their way […]
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10 Great Cult Films Favored By Quentin Tarantino
Can you believe that we are nearly a full generation removed from Reservoir Dogs? It has been eighteen, long years since Quentin Tarantino burst onto the scene with his mishmesh gulash of characters in suits arguing about pop music and casual dismemberment. It was a grimy, visceral little bastard of a film that was a […]
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10 Great Early Films That Anticipate Directors’ Later Styles
One is wont to mention auteur theory these days since the overuse of the term has been misappropriated to describe dilettantes shooting films on their I-Phones. The initial idea of the auteur was a director whose filmography exhibits a stylistic pattern specific to them. When talking about early films that foresee a director’s later style, […]
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10 Great Movies That Will Leave You Emotionally Exhausted
Movies, in their purest form, have an extraordinary ability to evoke the deepest human emotions within their viewers. Some films can be so deeply touching, irksome or elating that it leaves us in a totally different mood when the credits roll. This is even more fitting when the movie carries a moral or ethical message. […]
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10 of The Best Quiet Movie Performances of All Time
When we think about great performances, it’s often the boisterous and dialogue-filled that come to mind. It’s Daniel Day-Lewis as the ominous, intense oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. It’s Jesse Eisenberg’s frantic Mark Zuckberberg in The Social Network. It’s Robert De Niro as the explosively stubborn Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces of The 1980s That Flopped At The Box Office
It has become common in recent years to look back on the ‘80s as one of Hollywood’s worst decades – a tawdry era of infantilization, golden age of the video shop, when Best Picture winners were elephantine bores, and the comic book blockbuster, that still dominates cinema forty years later, was born. It is almost […]