Whether driven by suspicions about Communism or the paranoia over HIV, there is an all too familiar sub-genre of film that has been floating around like space-flowers for over half a decade. The ‘body-snatcher’ film taps into our primal fear that the people around us are not who they seem to be; into the feeling […]
Day: March 10, 2017
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10 Movie Directors We Wish Could Be More Prolific
Last summer, Taste of Cinema published a list titled 10 Directors Who Should Stop Making Movies. It featured such offenders as Tyler Perry, Dennis Dugan, Paul W. S. Anderson and, of course, Michael Bay – the cinephile’s bête noir. In the past 20 years, these filmmakers have inflicted dozens of films on us and have […]
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7 Well Written Movie Scenes That Don’t Use Any Dialogue
Dialogue should do at least one of two things, advance plot and establish characters. A screenwriter uses more than conversations between characters to do that. Dialogue gets more recognition than any other element of a script because it is the writing that translates to the screen, but a script is more than the characters’ words. […]