The term Postmodern is quite an oxymoron. It talks about a period which transcends the present. Notions of time, space, reality and existence are all skewed. This ideology became a part of various art forms. We all live in a world where the concept of time and space has become extremely complicated and disorienting because […]
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15 Essential Buster Keaton Films You Need To Watch
Of Silent Films’ “Big Three” ( Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd) Buster Keaton is more famous and critically acclaimed today, than he was in the 1920’s (the guy is Box Office Gold, believe me, I’ve seen it!) and the reason is simple: his films still seem awfully relevant and modern, maybe even more so than when they […]
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10 Essential John Carpenter Films You Need To Watch
John Carpenter is arguably one of the most important and influential genre directors of the last forty years. He quickly established a cult following with many of his 1970s and 1980s efforts that have since become classics, but a string of critical and commercial flops in the 1990s led to the director becoming disillusioned with […]
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15 Of The Best Horror Films With Social-Political Subtext
“Some movies aren’t just movies. They’re closer to voodoo; they channel currents larger and more powerful than themselves.” – EW Film Critic Owen Gleiberman What makes a horror movie transcend its often ill-respected genre and become a lasting part of the cultural zeitgeist? The answer is the same thing that makes a horror movie not […]
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10 Essential Latin American Documentaries You Need To Watch
You can pretty much say that Latin American documentaries were born in the midst of the political effervesce of the late sixties and seventies. With the advances in technology, film directors only needed, as Glauber Rocha said, “a camera in their hands and an idea in their heads” to make politically committed movies that showed […]
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The 30 Best War Movies of All Time
Let’s face it: even thirty titles isn’t really enough as the war movie genre has no shortage of great entries and obviously this list should not be taken as the be-all and end-all compendium of best war movies ever. There’s no MASH, The Big Red One, The Hurt Locker or Platoon even though all those […]