Since his threatening but silky smooth voice is on the verge of being stuck in our minds for an entire summer, it’s time to look back on actor James Spader’s fascinating film career before he lent his voice to 2015’s most highly anticipated comic book adaptation, The Avengers 2: The Age of Ultron. For years, […]
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The 25 Best Coming-of-Age Movies of All Time
The teen-age years are full of the first tastes of adult pleasures such as the first time drinking or the first time heart break while, navigating the social, hormonal, and scholarly adventures. The following films are quite universal, whether one is in the midst of teenage adventure or looking back at the faster times of […]
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20 Slow Films From This Century That Reward Patience
‘Slow’ can be a relative term when it comes to films. Those who are more attuned to watching Hollywood blockbusters will no doubt call even films by Alexander Payne or Clint Eastwood slow. It wouldn’t be too much of a surprise to see even those who are familiar with American indie cinema calling European arthouse […]
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The 20 Greatest Documentary Filmmakers of All Time
Documentary filmmakers come in a variety of shapes and forms. By their nature they are working outside of a system built for ascension, career and profit. There are no apprenticeships and you’re lucky if you are getting paid. They are making films out of passion for a specific topic and until recent decades hardly thinking […]
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10 Great Movies That Best Utilize Available & Natural Lighting
There’s a skeptical notion in the world of filmmaking that affiliates the use of available or natural light as being cheap, the filmmakers lazy, or that the project was rushed – because the filmmakers were being cheap… and lazy. And there is, alas… some merit for those reservations. Because the more equipment a filmmaker carries […]
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30 Essential Films for an Introduction to Italian Cinema
Italy has been involved in film since the origins in the early 1900s and were highly influential to the development of cinema with the Futurist movement. Unfortunately due to the Fascist restrictions on culture during the 1920s and 30s the output of film was weaker. In the 1940s, however, that the Italians made a significant […]