No kind of music can offer more range of rhythms, melodies and harmonies than classical music. Complete in all musical elements, classical music often ends up being labeled as superior or elite art. These labels mix up more than help to understand music as a whole, ultimately leading to confusion and prejudice, segmenting the area […]
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30 Essential Noir Films That You Need to Watch
Film noir was a genre (or, some prefer, a cycle of films) that thrived predominantly in Hollywood crime films in the early post World War II years, as men were returning from the military to their lives at home, and these films express the anxiety that many men felt about being displaced as workers, boyfriends, […]
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16 Great Films From This Century That Are About Immigrants
In February 2015, on the stage of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu dedicated the Oscar he won for Birdman to his fellow Mexicans and generally to all immigrants, defining the United States “an incredible Immigrant Nation”. During the new millennium, the issue of immigration became more important than ever and […]
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The 20 Best Lit Color Films in Movie History
Throughout history, human knowledge has been handed down through the generations via storytelling. Today, most of the planet’s population has access to a near infinite number of sources for knowledge, but still only a handful of platforms for stories: the oral tradition (including songs and lyrics), the written word, the static visual arts (painting, sculpture […]
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The 15 Best Mel Gibson Movies You Need To Watch
With the release and love of Mad Max: Fury Road all over the world in recent weeks, it is hard not to think of Mel Gibson. Obviously, the character of the post-apocalyptic road warrior Mad Max Rockatansky started Gibson’s career decades ago. Since Gibson is now much older (and possibly because he currently has a […]
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10 Recent Movies Criminally Underrated by Their IMDb Scores
IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, is something of the audience’s Rotten Tomatoes. The movie-centric website features all the information you could ever desire about every film ever made, and it also gives users an opportunity to rate those movies on a star-system of 1-10. The website’s user-base is decidedly mainstream – some of the highest […]