In 2015, Christmas comes a week early – if you care about Wookies, Ewoks and whether or not Han shot first. In which case, you should stop reading now. For the rest of us, particularly those that thought that Boba Fett was a type of cheese, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is just […]
Year: 2015
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The 10 Best Sci-fi Movies Based On Classic Literature
Many of the most popular science fiction movies have had an earlier basis in literature. In some cases, the connection has been close, and the authors have even had a hand in the creation of the film. In others, the films depart from the specifics of the books and modernize them for new audiences. Now […]
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The 10 Best Movies Influenced By Franz Kafka
For those who don’t know, Franz Kafka is one of the major authors of the 20th century. His novels and short stories are filled with anxiety, surrealism and persecution. He uses these feelings so the reader can be shocked by the cruelty of the world and of society, but, most of all, by man, who […]
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10 Famous Actors Who Are Or Have Become Major Disappointments
Very similar to guests, there are actors who were amazing at one time but have long since overstayed their welcome. Others weren’t welcome in the first place, yet we allowed them in and they promptly overturned the punch bowl and destroyed the t.v. This list will detail actors/actresses who people seem to inexplicably love and […]
Movie Review: Suffragette (2015)
“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable,” spits a frustrated Maud Watts, played with equal parts tenderness and tenacity by Carey Mulligan (An Education, Shame) in Sarah Gavron’s pulse-pounding period drama, Suffragette. Maud is a fictional working-class mother and laundress in London’s East End, who in 1912 finds herself swept […]
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The 25 Most Extreme Asian Movies Ever
Asian cinema has entailed extreme films, almost since its conception, incorporating themes and concepts that, at least to the eyes of individuals in the West, seem improbable. Japanese filmmakers are the definite masters of the style, mainly due to notions resulting from the atomic bomb. However, there is representation in the field from Korea and […]