Heavy metal music has always been either wholeheartedly embraced, its musicians revered as demigods by legions who worship them, or simply written off as nonsensical noise punctuated by screaming. Aside from rap, no other genre in music history is more adored and reviled in equal measures. Even during the 1980s (metal’s heyday as the most […]
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10 Great Romanian Films of The Transition Era
Romania has always been an interesting country for cinema. In present time, every cinephile knows about the Romanian New Wave of Cinema (a film movement that started in 2001). Every year these films are not only present and every major film festival in Europe but they are always held in high regard and given all […]
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12 Non-Horror Films Where The Characters Get Lost In An Ambient
Getting lost in an ambient doesn’t mean merely not being able to orient and find the path; the films included in this list are stories of the characters being dominated during the narration by a narrative ambient. For the same reason, you’ll find Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis) on the same list with Gerry (Gus Van […]
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The 10 Greatest Uses of Music in a Stanley Kubrick Film
I have seen thousands of films and I can honestly say, compared to his peers and most contemporaries, no one used music like Stanley Kubrick. Very unique for this era, Kubrick preferred the use of musical extracts that were often “contrapuntal” – music segments that are contradictory to the emotional or visual value of a […]
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The 30 Best Indie Movies of The Last 30 Years
Kurt Cobain once famously said that “punk rock is freedom.” By this, he meant that divorced from the dogma of mainstream rock, he was free to express himself however he wished, however odd or shocking that expression may well have been. This, evidently, helped him to keep his work intensely personal. If there is one […]
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The 15 Best Documentaries You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now
The return of the documentary in this era has been nothing short of a cinematic renaissance. Long after the golden age of ‘cinema verite” seemed to have drawn its last breath, and the initial rise of the 1970s, the often banality of Reality TV seems to have inspired a whole new generation of documentarians to […]