It’s a common fact that TV is becoming more and more cinematic. What people don’t talk about as much is how so many great directors either got their start in television, or are taking breaks from film to work in TV now. Whether it’s future Star Wars director Rian Johnson lending his hand to a […]
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The 30 Best Italian Comedy Movies of All Time
Italian comedy has the great advantage of being greatly diversified and full of different types of comedy. The Commedia All’italiana is the most famous one but there are other types of comedies that made Italian comedy one of the most renowned. The Commedia All’italiana genre was made famous by Mario Monicelli in 1958, and made […]
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The 15 Best Movies Featuring Trains
Travel by rail in the United States goes all the way back to the early 1800s. It was an important part of the Industrial Revolution and helped to settle the western United States. The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the U.S. when the “Golden Spike” was driven in Ogden, Utah in 1869. At the […]
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15 Great Movies That Masterfully Blend Black & White With Color
Any film maker possessed of any level of competence places the visual appearance of their film at the very top of the priority list and rightly so. Films are images first and foremost and the look of those images can not only sell the film but also conjure just the effect the director wishes to […]
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15 Great Horror Movies That Play on Gendered Fears
“I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.” – Dario Argento Fear is intricate; it’s entwined in the innumerate things that define who we are: our culture, our evolution, our relationships, our existence and, of […]
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The 15 Most Visually Stunning Sci-fi Movies of All Time
When it comes to depicting worlds that lie beyond our own realm of time and space, master filmmakers have sometimes gone the extra step to highlight the beauty of the unknown, the extra-terrestrial or the future. By stretching their techniques as filmmakers, some are able to create visual poetry and achieve something magnificent in the […]