Growing up with my brother in the 1980s we spent a great deal of time watching wonderfully inappropriate horror films, mostly on pay TV or late night cable. Peeking through fingers, knowing we shouldn’t be seeing what we were seeing but unable and often unwilling to turn away as our hearts jackhammered our spines, thrilled […]
Year: 2016
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10 Great Actors Who Need to Make a Comeback
Time in Hollywood has a tendency to be a good or bad thing on the careers of actors. Some actors can withstand the test of time from the beginning of their careers until they retire, others aren’t so lucky and wind up going through a rough patch in their careers, while some drop off the […]
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The 10 Best Uses of David Bowie Songs in Movies
There are few other artists that have so successfully melded mediums and traversed boundaries than has David Bowie. Bowie is at once a brand and an inventor, and his involvement across the entirety of the cultural spectrum overshadows that of all of his contemporaries. Due to his inherent fascination with the visual arts, cinema was […]
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The 10 Best Filmmakers Who Still Shoot in Film
“Film vs. digital” has been the main debate in cinema industry for the last 15 years. Directors, producers, directors of photography and film fans have all taken part in the discussion, often with a great deal of participation: the sudden revolution of digital filmmaking is certainly the main paradigm shift of recent cinema history. Digital […]
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The 10 Worst Nicolas Cage Movies
When was the last time you saw a good movie starring Nicolas Cage? Not a so-bad-it’s-good movie, not a bad movie in which his crazy performance is enjoyable more as a meme-making machine then as anything else, but a genuinely good movie. It’s been a while, I’m guessing. The Oscar-winning Californian actor, a nephew of […]
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The 15 Best Movies about Failed Love
There are many things that define us as human beings, but the world we live in cannot really be understood without remembering the fact that we are deeply emotional beings. Our entire history has been constructed over two essential pillars: emotion and reason, expressed as art and science. There is a sort of dialectical contradiction […]