Affairs – a word that conjures up a wealth of different emotions, be it the heady excitement of new love or the utter devastation that betrayal brings, as well as the tragedy that sometimes ensues. These films look at this controversial subject from different perspectives, and so might justify adultery, shame it, understand it or […]
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30 Essential Films For An Introduction To Pre-Code Hollywood
Between the arrival of sound and the imposition of the Motion Picture Production Code on July 1, 1934; Hollywood was essentially free to talk about plentiful controversial subjects such as violence, lechery and substance abuse. The Hays Code, as it was called, after the president of the MPPDA (Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), […]
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15 Great Movies That Caused Unexpected Controversy
Controversy is nothing new to art. Whenever a new art form or movement gains enough traction within the mainstream, scandals are sure to follow. Charles Dickens, Edouard Manet and Leo Tolstoy have all had careers pockmarked by moral outrage. Even legendary masters have not been exempt from the firing line; Michelangelo was once contested over […]
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25 Best Movies That Came Out In 1977
If you want diversity in film, there is no better year to check out than 1977. It was the year we were first introduced to Star Wars; for many moviegoers around the world nothing would ever be the same again. It was a groundbreaking movie experience that some say has never been repeated since. 1977 […]
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15 Horror Movies Which Unmask the Fears of Different Generations
We like to think that we all share the same common fears: death, decay, monsters, uncertainty, intimacy, and so on. Whilst horror movies are expected to play on these visceral fears, a truly terrifying film will find horror also in the modern-day. A horror film can thus expose the blight which ate away at a […]
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7 Best Movie Villains With a Wicked Sense of Humor
Every once in a while, a cinematic villain so inhabits his misanthropic calling with such zest and enjoyment that one is left with no choice but to marvel at their audacity and forever be chained to repeating their memorable lines. Chief among these purveyors of anarchy and bloodshed is the villain who lives to shock and […]