Ever since “Coraline” burst onto the big screen in 2009, Laika Studios has been renowned for its dark stop motion fairy tales with touches of childhood whimsy, Before Laika became Laika, it was Will Vinton Studios, home of legendary king of claymation Will Vinton (Closed Mondays, The Adventures of Mark Twain). Will was a better […]
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10 Great Horror Movies Recommended By Ari Aster
Ari Aster burst into scene this past decade, dropping two instant hits in Hereditary and Midsommar and establishing himself as one of the most intriguing and sought-out directors in the business today. Both of his A24-backed arthouse horror films seem to have paved the way to an alternative way of storytelling in the genre, banking […]
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10 Films That Prove Jack Nicholson Was A Counterculture Icon
When most think about this 3 time Academy Award winner, whose 56 year acting legacy has seen him become one of the most recognisable screen talents across the planet, they tend to think of think of him in the lead role in one of four films; The Shining, Batman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest […]
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All 7 Kelly Reichardt Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
One of the great independents of American cinema, Kelly Reichardt has a relatively small body of work compared to most of her contemporaries, but practically every single one of her films is an essential piece of the last 20 years of indie filmmaking. That’s something that definitively cannot be said for the majority of other […]
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10 Underrated South Korean Movies That Everybody Should See
At the tail end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the powers that be in Hollywood discovered something they hadn’t realised before. Which was that there was a real hunger amongst movie-goers to see effects-laden fantasy cinema that was based on prior cultural work. The X-Men, Harry Potter, The Lord Of […]
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The 10 Best Movies To Come Out of Dead Genres
“There will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western.” Steven Spielberg said this back in 2015, and while superhero movies have not died out yet, he does have a point. Genre popularity in film is finite. Sure, there are revivals and resurgences, but a good amount of film genres […]