US writer-director Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale) evokes an elegantly detailed and extremely dangerous 1960s London as he depicts the thorny and short-fused lives of East End underworld rulers and twin brothers, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Helgeland, who is perhaps best known for writing and receiving an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential […]
Year: 2015
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25 Weird Animated Movies That Are Worth Your Time
There is an odd perception among the general populace that animated movies are made for children. While there’s an obvious connection between children and brightly colored cartoons, adults by nature want to make things for themselves. The people that get into making animation are obviously driven by the desire to draw. But many times these […]
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15 Great Documentaries To Help You Better Understand The Modern World
In order to understand the world around us, we turn to the media to help make sense of it. One of the more creditable sources of information are documentaries. Documentary films can explore just about any topic and give the viewer a snapshot of that issue, an important or interesting person, or whatever the filmmaker […]
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The 15 Most Promising Movie Directors You Should Keep An Eye On
It is impossible to predict what will be the next classic films, the ones that will be remembered with the passage of time. This list ventures to guess, and suggests 15 new (or not so new) directors with less than five films and projects to come. They are the new voices representing the present code […]
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10 Great Movies About Britain’s Relationship With Its Colonial Past
Great Britain is famous for a variety of things. At best, anglophiles and nationals can draw from a variety of culture, of nobility, ritual and statesmanship. At worst the British are just a concoction of cross-dressing eccentrics with an aversion to dentistry and a penchant for tea. Yet what is rarely discussed is the history […]
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20 Great Siege Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Certainly one of the most satisfying and exciting cinematic scenarios is the siege picture. Combining fast-paced action sequences and unforeseeable circumstances, the siege motif emerges in a number of different genre categories; action, comedy, drama, horror, science fiction, you name it. As satiating as it is protracted and impassioned these films invariably target an individual […]