The thin blue line has been featured time and time again throughout cinema history. From hardboiled detective thrillers to intense character studies, corrupt police officers have been a fixture in movies. Sometimes we may root for the hero, the Boy Scout, the white knight who swoops in to clean up the crooked police department but […]
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25 Bleak Crime Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Just like real life crimes, films about crime aren’t supposed to be uplifting. After all, they are films about people wrongfully hurting someone and the consequences of those actions. But even in a genre full of sadness and unpleasantness, there are a select number that are darker than the rest. From the start, these films […]
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The 20 Greatest South Korean Actors Working Today
In addition to writing a piece on the best, individual performances, this piece is meant to celebrate the best actors currently working in South Korean cinema. For this list, I chose 20 individuals—a mix of male and female. Most of these people had their start in television and some also work concurrently in both mediums. […]
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25 Great Movies About Racism That Are Worth Your Time
Racism is the most troubling societal issue, it is the bane of our existence on this space rock, preventing us from becoming more understanding of each other and living in a world free of hatred and suffering. Once, there was no concept of racism at all, not because it did not exist, but because it […]
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12 Great Films Every Soccer Fan Should Watch
For the United States of America it’s soccer. For the rest of the world it’s football. It is the most popular sport on Earth. In fact, in Europe, it’s not even a sport anymore, it’s a business; but that’s another story. The passion football stirs up in people’s hearts is incomparable to anything on this […]
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The 15 Best Action Movies Featuring Female Leads
When it comes to the action genre, women usually get short-changed. For the longest time, female characters are usually there in service to the male protagonists in some way — whether a lover interest, victim, etc.. It’s a issue that goes beyond Hollywood, and it’s only recently that things are starting to turn around in […]