Revenge is one of the big trends in Korean cinema. In previous decades, the inclination of the market to produce gory thrilling movies about vengeance has triumphed to capturing a great part of the Asian world and international audiences as well. The rising popularity of South Korean cinema is no coincidence. The visceral way to […]
Year: 2015
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30 Movies With The Most Brilliant Camera Work
Cinema is the only art form capable of utilizing and combining all other arts, and in such inspiring ways that it can produce a new way of complete human expression; ergo a fresh, and “sui generis” art itself. However, as in every art form, to achieve a confirmed or acclaimed artistic status is not a […]
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20 Gems of World Cinema That Need To Be Rediscovered
The Foreign Film Market for most Americans is sometimes difficult to predict. Very few features that don’t rely on car chases, explosions, gratuitous violence or unnecessary sex and CGI effects will hardly go over well. Plus, having to read subtitles or deal with poorly dubbed English may cause most of them to find something less […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces Too Unsung To Be Widely Regarded
You’re not going to become a cinephile by knowing a little about a lot of movies. Neurologists don’t need to know about astronomy to be scientists. Most of the men and women who earn doctorates and make their livings writing textbooks on Southeast Asian movies would be out of their depth talking about French Poetic […]
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The 25 Best Movies About Voyeurism
The term “voyeurism” often denotes certain connotations bracketed with perversion, and often of a sexual nature. When we hear that something is voyeuristic our knee-jerk reaction usually, and inaccurately, involves a sexual deviant, maybe with binoculars, spying on pillow-fighting coeds perhaps. But voyeurism, in a broader definition, details any type of surveillance or espionage, and […]