Film is a unique art form because it represents the culmination of independent artistic expressions working in concert. When a painter’s eye, a designer’s sense of composition, a musician’s power over emotion, a storyteller’s words, and an actor’s poise work together seamlessly, the result can be an immersive experience. Every movie lover likely cherishes some […]
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10 Potentially Great Movies Ruined by Terrible Casting Decisions
A film can have a great script, a director’s vision, and exceptional set design but still fall flat if the wrong people are involved. Casting decisions are the easiest and readiest example of failure for viewing audiences. Famously, Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was such a travesty of casting that everyone involved apologised – […]
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The 20 Best Movie Performances of The 2010s (So Far)
Far too much is written in year-end lists about great acting as it forms such an integral, indispensable part of our moviegoing experience. Actors are, at the end of the day, the face of the film. They channel the truth of their characters and express the thematic intentions of the filmmaker seamlessly and in the […]
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10 Movie Endings That Are Almost Impossible To Explain
These 10 ambiguous films are a great example of how to create a compelling and enthralling story without attaching to the conventional cinematic storytelling rules. The final uncertainty is crucial for the narrative and encourages the viewer to question the bizarre nature of the movie and to make sense of the events occurred (if there […]
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The 10 Best Action Thrillers of The 21st Century
Action-thrillers have truly become something special over the last few years. Europe and Asia have long offered the world unique and exhilarating action-thrillers that their American counterparts have only started to somewhat grasp. From the early ‘90s with Luc Besson’s action-thrillers to end all action-thrillers, “Léon: The Professional,” the genre hybrid has become bigger, bolder, […]
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10 Films That Answer Fundamental Questions About Cinema
If “everyone has their own truth”, as the saying goes, it is understandable why cinema, which is “truth twenty-four times per second” according to Jean-Luc Godard, has been and will likely continue to be the subject of so many passionate disputes. Their charm consists of the fact that they are for the most part unsolvable […]