Red is probably the most charged of all primary colours. Reminiscent of roses, blood and fire and emblematic of love, passion and lust, colour red accompanies all of these things and situations in life that are intense, beautiful or mysterious. It is as known, as it is intelligible, that all colours function in a way […]
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The 18 Best Teen Angst Movies of the 1980s
The eighties were perhaps the most prolific decade for teen films since The Golden Age, the 1950’s. James Dean’s effortless “cool guy” vibe and the longing for a teenage rebellion was finally brought back to the big screen. And for once, these films didn’t belittle teenagers nor portray the struggle they lived seem petty or foolish. Teenagers were […]
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20 Delightfully Weird Movies That You Might Not Have Seen
Weird means ‘very strange’ or ‘bizarre’ in dictionaries. Its synonyms include words like outlandish, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic, surreal, peculiar, odd, zany, madcap, freakish and crazy among other things. So it’s a given that ‘weird’ will mean different things to different people. For the sake of this list, let’s go towards the more outlandish and bizarre […]
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15 Great Japanese Crime Films That Are Worth Your Time
During the seven year occupation following the Second World War the American military imposed an authoritarian regime of censorship on Japan’s film industry, wanting it to effectively clone Hollywood’s contemporary oeuvre. The big money stateside lay in film noir and studios such as Nikkatsu and Toei, smelling profits to be made, quickly latched onto the […]
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10 Great Found Footage Horror Movies for Beginners
Found footage is one of the most controversial, widely reviled forms of horror cinema; not because it is particularly confrontational like torture porn, but because the format itself is so different to the conventional cinematic approach of fictional narrative films. Found footage films attempt to imitate real footage by utilising shaky handheld camerawork in order […]
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The 10 Best Bruce Willis Movies
Born in West Germany in 1955, Bruce Willis has remained a prominent A-list actor for nearly three decades. He has played everything from a foul-mouthed NYPD detective to a troubled psychologist; from a real-life superhero to two characters from the future. He is an extremely versatile actor who has proven his worth as a leading […]