Cinema has evolved in every department since its origins. Special and visual effects are no exception. Today’s CGI laden blockbusters and streaming series owe their success to the creative work of one man: Ray Harryhausen. His stop motion animation techniques paved the way for modern day stop motion works and computer generated effects. He sparked […]
- Features
- ...
10 Great Sci-fi Films You May Not Have Seen
When most people think of classics, the films that come to mind tend to be the most popular or most acclaimed flicks that we all know and love. In the sci-fi genre, a typical list of classics would probably include a Spielberg film or two, maybe a Kubrick film, perhaps even a Lucas offering if […]
- Features
- ...
10 Movie Classics That Are Master Classes of Naturalistic Cinema
It seems quite easy to recall a couple of cinematic movements which postulated the empowerment of naturalism by dealing with everyday-life themes, placing ordinary people in the center of the narrative plot and minimizing the use of music and stylistic features so to resemble as much as possible the “real life”. We can distinguish as […]
- Features
- ...
10 Great Asian Horror Movies You May Have Never Seen
Since the birth of cinema the horror genre has been largely explored through its methods of evoking fear and suspense for entertainment purposes. Some of cinema’s most iconic moments have been born from the scenes, characters, music, and settings of horror films from disparate times throughout cinema’s history. The massive continent of Asia has been […]
- Features
- ...
10 Great 1980s Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
Nostalgia for the films of the 1980s is stronger now more than ever, as Hollywood often draws upon this golden age of blockbuster films as the source of new ideas moving forward. Projects like Stranger Things and Ready Player One have marketed themselves entirely on references to the most popular characters and iconography of 80s […]
- Features
- ...
10 Forgotten Movie Masterpieces of World Cinema
World cinema is somewhat hard to define as a term. Usually it has the following components: it is not a Hollywood production, it is often not English spoken (but not by definition), and the term carries a feeling of ‘art-house’ sensibilities. It can be a bit of an Anglo-centric term. Most people associate ‘world cinema’ […]