A director is often supposed to be someone of experience with several working years in the film business and who uses the knowledge acquired through time to excel at making fine films. Sometimes there are cases where the strength and irreverence of youth, combined with talent, genius, and inventive power, can replace the old shaman […]
Year: 2015
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The 21 Best Movies About The Holocaust
Film is a medium that is able to capture history as it happened and preserve the images of the past. Hence, since its invention, it has been an instrumental means of recording the most important events of human history, especially the atrocities of war. Besides documenting however, film also offers the opportunity to construct entirely […]
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The 12 Best Horror Movies From This Century That Feature Female Leads
There are features that, in the collective unconscious, are typical of womankind : weakness, frailty, fickleness. Most of all, as trivial as it seems, what really makes a woman different from a man is motherhood: even nowadays, in a technologically and scientifically advanced world, the idea of pregnancy and giving birth keeps its original sense […]
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The 15 Greatest Tom Hanks Movie Performances
This list springs from Tom Hanks’ s latest appearance on The Late Late show, in which, in a dynamic pairing with James Corden, the couple showcased every Tom Hanks film in under seven minutes. In a flurry of wigs and smeared make up, the majority of Hanks’s career was laid before the watching public and […]
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The 30 Best Neo-Noir Movies of All Time
The classic 1940s/1950s era of film noir produced some true cinematic treasures such as Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947), John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) among others. After that period passed, the grim heart of the great dark crime films of that era carried over into […]
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15 Talented Under-30 Actors You Should Keep An Eye On
This is a list of actors to watch in the coming years; actors who have worked with noted directors. They will be referenced in relation to not only well-known movies but also indie films. The following list proposes a template by which to judge these promising young actors, focusing on acting skill and both on […]