2020 was certainly an untraditional film year, but despite the odds stacked against cinephiles, the Academy Awards actually produced one of the stronger Best Picture lineups in recent memory. It can be debated whether the eight films chosen are a good representation of what the year in cinema had to offer, but each was worthy […]
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10 Great Ozploitation Movies You May Have Never Seen
Ozploitation. Not The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – we’re talking about Australian genre cinema of the 70s and 80s! In the early 70s, Australia’s government decided to create Australia’s own cinema culture by founding the Australian Film Commision. Emerging from the shadows of the Australian New Wave, ozploitation found itself answering to Australia’s primal, grindhouse […]
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10 Great Historical Epics You May Have Never Seen
We don’t come across too many historical epics, or epics in general these days. With their huge budgets and complicated production plans, they’re often a pain to make, and with their lengthy runtime they aren’t the biggest audience catchers, so it makes sense we don’t see them too often and when we do, it is […]
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10 Films That Launched The Careers of Screen Legends
We know them for classic films that inspired us, made us cry, or made us cheer, but even the most famous actors got their start somewhere, and you may not have seen the film that started it all for some of Hollywood’s biggest names. Here are 10 films that launched the career of some of […]
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10 Horror Movie Masterpieces of The 21st Century
The first known horror film dates all the way back to 1896, when the French silent film Le Manoir du Diable shocked audiences with cutting-edge special effects and a dark (for the time) fantasy aesthetic. Over a century later, filmmakers are still constantly engineering new ways to frighten us, whether it’s through eerie special effects, […]
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10 Great UFO Movies For Believers
Extraterrestrial encounters have always been a fascination of science-fiction, visions of strange life forms evolved to the conditions of different worlds, or to technological powers far beyond our own. On film one thinks first of the alien invasion, the saucer fleet of War of the Worlds (1953) and the looming mothership of Independence Day (1996), […]