Some films debut to universal acclaim and instantly gain classic status, but often it takes time to win over an audience. It’s hard to determine what a film’s legacy will look like based on the first reactions it gets, and some films initially deemed to be divisive gain a new critical appreciation after years of […]
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10 Great Movies That Perfectly Blend Arthouse With Grindhouse
Ingmar Bergman and Herschell Gordon Lewis walk into a bar, a magical pub populated only with filmmakers. Seated in a smoky corner lit via neon beer sign, Ed Wood and Andrei Tarkovsky gab about science fiction over a couple of bourbons. Elsewhere Lynne Ramsay chalks her pool cue while she debates Roger Corman on the […]
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10 Great Recent Arthouse Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
The common denominator of the following brilliant ten art house films is quite simple: every one of them has been an official selection in the last decade at one of the top three European Film Festivals (Cannes, Berlin, or Venice). Nine out of the ten films have won awards. The single exception is the Chad-France […]
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The 10 Best Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies of The 21st Century
The term “Utopia” was introduced by Thomas More in 1516, describing a fictional island society that’s conceived to be nearly perfect, in almost every aspect. “Dystopia” is the exact opposite, depicting often futuristic societies or states where life is rather terrible and things keep getting worse for everyone, instead of improving. In time, Dystopia has […]
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10 Great Movies That Should Have Started Franchises
It seems that every weekend movie theaters are cluttered with unnecessary sequels, with some franchises continuing to rehash the same story for multiple installments that no one asked for. Unfortunately, while there are seemingly countless sequels playing at any given moment, it’s often that the films most deserving of a franchise never get past the […]
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10 Great Sci-fi Horror Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
Sci-fi and horror share some of the same genre roots and there have been several excellent mixes of those two genres in the past. Obviously, David Cronenberg is a particular expert here; from “The Fly” to “eXistenZ,” he kept on giving thought-provoking and at the same time, scary films to cinema. Then there were, of […]