There are features that, in the collective unconscious, are typical of womankind : weakness, frailty, fickleness. Most of all, as trivial as it seems, what really makes a woman different from a man is motherhood: even nowadays, in a technologically and scientifically advanced world, the idea of pregnancy and giving birth keeps its original sense […]
Month: June 2015
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The 15 Greatest Tom Hanks Movie Performances
This list springs from Tom Hanks’ s latest appearance on The Late Late show, in which, in a dynamic pairing with James Corden, the couple showcased every Tom Hanks film in under seven minutes. In a flurry of wigs and smeared make up, the majority of Hanks’s career was laid before the watching public and […]
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The 30 Best Neo-Noir Movies of All Time
The classic 1940s/1950s era of film noir produced some true cinematic treasures such as Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947), John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) among others. After that period passed, the grim heart of the great dark crime films of that era carried over into […]
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15 Talented Under-30 Actors You Should Keep An Eye On
This is a list of actors to watch in the coming years; actors who have worked with noted directors. They will be referenced in relation to not only well-known movies but also indie films. The following list proposes a template by which to judge these promising young actors, focusing on acting skill and both on […]
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20 Great ‘Double Features’ That Are Worth Your Time (Part I)
A double feature can be defined as two different films with similar theme, style, substance and/or ideas. It can consist of two twin movies from one director like Stalker & Solaris, El Topo & The Holy Mountain or Onibaba & Kuroneko, where the same theme’s are executed with the same style – fleshing out one […]
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25 Great Psychosexual Thrillers That Are Worth Your Time
Some of the best films push us to our limits and challenge our preconceived notions of sexual norms and mores. They go beyond the typical boy-meets-girl trope and delve into deep-seated, complex, Freudian narratives of sexual identity. Part of enjoying a drama or thriller is deconstructing what motivates the main characters to make the choices […]