The French New Wave could very well be the most important movement in cinema history. There is a good chance you have heard of this movement, but you may not be familiar with just how influential it was, how many rules it broke and exactly how they did it. As Quentin Tarantino said about the […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movies of The Last 15 Years
People often get offended when you call their favorite movies “overrated” due to the huge misconception regarding the word. The word is unjustly associated with something being totally unworthy of praise while it totally is not the case. The term overrated simply means that something gets more praise than it deserves. It doesn’t negate the […]
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The 30 Best Silent Movies in Hollywood History
The first American movies emerged at the dawn of the 19th century. They told short, simple stories, usually about a chase or a gag, serving as low-cost entertainment to the poor, illiterate mass. The birth of Hollywood as we know it, however, only came about in the 1910’s, when production moved from New York to […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome is one of the most talked about eras of history, being featured and referenced in countless sources of popular culture. The range of “Ancient Rome” is not an exactly definite timespan, but it mainly focuses on the Roman Empire, starting around 50 BC and spanning the next couple hundred years. Although, there have […]
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The 10 Worst Animated Movies of All Time
Cartoons tend to be common thing for children to get engulfed with, but it has shifted to a major art form that can be for adults, teenagers, and college students. Until recently, animated films have been treated like a step-child to more standard film especially by the academy and the public at large. Several movies […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Surrealistic Cinema of Satoshi Kon
The late Satoshi Kon was amongst the foremost prominent Japanese animators, whose works transcended the world of anime and manga, thus creating a modern division of the genre, which chiefly addressed to a mature audience. However, he did not accomplish that via sex and violence, but through the profundity of his themes and a complex […]