Thrillers have always been hugely popular with audiences and the 2000s were no exception. Filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh and the Coen Brothers continued to produce artful crime offerings. Meanwhile, M. Night Shyamalan emerged as an important storyteller of claustrophobic sci-fi, fantasy and horror thrillers. While pictures like No Country For Old Men were extolled, many […]
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10 Great 2010s Thriller Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
The 2010s saw the rising popularity of streaming. In the past, independent films would drift into obscurity. Now, there are platforms upon which lesser-known titles can be recommended to film fans all over the world. Lost gems are being rediscovered and fresh pictures from unknown directors are lauded. Whereas mainstream studios can be creatively restrictive, […]
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10 Great Western Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
“3:10 to Yuma was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy. However, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it’s a very fine line that divides these two.” — Christian […]
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10 Thriller Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
“The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.” — Ken Follett From its inception with The Great Train Robbery (1903), to the ‘40s noirs, to the present slew of titles, what is clear is the thriller genre possess never-ending popularity. While some genres seem to ebb and flow, one can be […]
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10 Great Underrated Crime Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
“I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money.” – Andrew Dominik Since the genesis of cinema, the crime genre has been jam-packed with seminal achievements. However, the assessments of unenlightened, harsh critics […]
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10 Great Underrated Horror Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
Next to comedies, more than any other, the horror genre has been historically critically undervalued, perceived unfairly as comic and dispensable. In spite of the validity of its devoted following, harsher critics go so far as to nullify horror’s purpose, snobbishly mocking it. What they’ve failed to recognise is, beyond the arbitrary artifice, these stories […]