Great Movie Classics

There are certainly many classics that nearly every serious film fan has seen; films like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Rear Window have attained a status that makes them required viewing for anyone interested in film history. Not only are these masterpieces that have stood the test of time, but […]

Other than the fantastic Criterion Channel, which is unfortunately unavailable outside the USA and Canada, and UK’s streaming service BFI Player, Amazon Prime is the best place for lovers of older, classic movies. From 1920s silent films to forgotten gems of the 1990s, Amazon Prime’s vast catalogue has a surprising amount of classic films, yet […]

It’s always a good time to sit down to a seriously great film, right? And we all have dry spells where we seem to find anything but, too. So, why not make things a little easier, simplify them a bit, and narrow things down to ten incredible movies that you should check out in any […]

Classics tend to be the films that have (or will) stand the test of time – films that shaped culture or defined it, films that solidified cinematic language, films that told stories for generations to come. At this point, there’s a general cinematic canon that people consider to be all-time “classics” – whether that’s determined […]

It is probably easier to win a woman’s heart than assuring that a film would be seen and appreciated by a large number of people, even though social scientists seem to prefer the contrary. Every year, thousands of films are released and it is the biggest gamble a person can ever take to think that […]

The following films are of amazing narrative and aesthetic quality. Most of them have been Oscar-nominated, or at the very least, swept the National Awards of the respective countries of their production. For one reason or another, they have been unjustly semi-forgotten or relegated to a kind of second-tier of cinematic achievement by many critics and […]