College is one of the most formative and exciting times in many people’s lives, representing the transitional stage into adulthood. Similar to many coming-of-age films set in high school, college movies focus on the new responsibilities of the young students and the pitfalls that they encounter only these events are blown up to magnified proportions […]
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The 25 Greatest Cult Movies of All Time
Have you ever clicked with a crazy movie or seen something weird and wonderful that seemed made just for you? Odds are this sort of cinematic caprice was a cult film, perhaps one that led you to an almost unhealthy obsession with something stylishly strange. The cult film experience differs from mainstream movies by appealing […]
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The 13 Best Irish Films of The 21st Century So Far
Ireland’s film industry has been booming in recent years, with productions such as Penny Dreadful, Ripper Street, Love & Friendship, Game Of Thrones, The Lobster and even (briefly) the latest Star Wars filming on these shores in the past year among others, not to mention indigenous projects such as Brooklyn and The Secret Scripture. Factors […]
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The 30 Most Underappreciated American Movies of The 21st Century So Far
The twenty first century has seen movies become progressively less important to popular American culture with every passing year. More films have been made in the last fifteen years than even the most thorough film buff would ever have time to see in one lifetime. The ones that did get noticed would often be forgotten […]
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The 25 Best Movies About World War II
War is an artistically rich topic and many noted cinematic artists have produced works concerning war and a war backdrop. World War II is perhaps and most familiar and fertile of war period settings in the filmmaking universe. The war which inaugurated the atomic era and in which an accumulated 60 million persons died is […]
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25 Great Movies That Are Turning 20 in 2017
During an evening commute through LA traffic, a friend and I listened to a podcast featuring screenwriter C. Robert Cargill (“Sinister”). In the episode, the writer briefly mentioned that if it weren’t for “Titanic,” 1997 would be considered a great year for films—up there with 1977, 1999, and 2008. Once the episode was over, my […]