Most modern Horror movies depend on a pretty manipulative modus operandis (from a cinematic point of view) to grab its audience: jump-scares. There’s nothing wrong with jump scares per se, they’re often the best part of an otherwise forgettable film. But the tough fact is that the overly-reliance on this easy to use but hard […]
Day: December 4, 2014
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The 30 Best Movies That Didn’t Receive Best Picture Nominations (1990-1999)
The 1990s was a great decade for films. New blood was entering in the way of directors and there were some fine actors, both young ones just starting out, and people who had stage and TV experience making the leap to feature films. Every year seemed to have more and better films and Hollywood was […]
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The 15 Best Movies About Suicide
There have been several positions about suicide. Arthur Schopenhauer depicted it as a lie even in a world marked by suffering. David Hume regarded it as a legitimate alternative that shouldn’t scare us to consider. Though we can agree or disagree with any of these extreme positions, we can accept with Albert Camus that suicide […]