Cinema has been interested in the outer reaches of space ever since the beginning of the medium. George Melies’s Un voyage dans la lune/A trip to the Moon (1902) is probably the first film that tackled the theme of space exploration, and, ironically, humanity is still not able to get pass the Moon. In cinema, […]
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The 10 Worst Adam Sandler Movies
Though he did have a few detractors when he was on Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995, nothing could have prepared us for the career New York-born comedian Adam Sandler would go on to have. The public keeps enabling him, with his films performing relatively well for comedies, especially in the franchised Grown Ups […]
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25 Cult Crime Movies That Are Worth Your Time
The crime film is probably the most popular type of film genre, yet may not actually be considered a genre at all. It is an element that is contained in many other film genre and subgenres; such as gangster films, film noir, prison films, caper films, westerns, lawyer films, police films, comedy, slapstick, and so […]
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The 15 Best Writer-Directors of All Time
On the surface, writing and directing a feature film are two wildly different gigs. The image of a closed-off writer typing away in a dark room directly contrasts with the bombastic ideal of the director sporting a megaphone and a viewfinder. But if one looks closer, such responsibilities have more in common than meets the […]
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The 20 Best Movies About Youth and Rebellion
Youth Run Amok films became popular in the 1940’s and 1950’s with a series of narrative films focusing on the teenage dilemma in America; such titles as Delinquent Daughters(1944), Mad Youth (1940), and Assassin of Youth (1937) focused on the problems of teenager’s rebelling against the world through underage sexuality, drinking, alcohol and fast cars. […]
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10 Bad Movies That Teach Us How to Make Good Movies
“The bad films have taught me most about film-making” – Werner Herzog If you’re old enough, you’ll probably remember overhearing many a passionate conversation between film-buffs take place within the hallowed rows of the local video store. In the video store we all got to be armchair film-makers. One of these conversations might have gone […]