In the post-Star Wars decade of the 1980s, science fiction films continued to flourish, now with the added incentive that they could command big box office receipts. Franchises were popular, as were big event films, and adding elements from other genres was big, too (like sci-fi horror, and sci-fi comedy), and filmmakers as diverse as […]
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10 Movies To Watch If You Liked “Drive”
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive seemed to have come out of nowhere; a relatively unknown Danish director directing an art film starring, of all people, The Notebook star Ryan Gosling sounded like a very hit-or-miss premise. Despite having only Gosling’s star power and an enthusiastic film festival reception to back it up though, the film ended […]
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The 15 Most Thought-Provoking Dialogues in Movie History
If there is a tool unlike any other, it would be the ability to hold a conversation, to project what’s on our mind onto the lives of others, hitting them with an incredibly profound impact, for they have lived it according to their own words. Through these provoking aspects of our thoughts, we manage to […]
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10 Classically Male Characters Who Could Have a Female Version
Recently, a few talented actresses have declared that they would love to play James Bond onscreen. That is, after Gillian Anderson was put in the spot by fans, who made a fan-poster of her as Bond, Jane Bond – in these days that the online fan community has exponential power over casting decisions, and social […]
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10 Bad Movies That Roger Ebert Liked
The late Roger Ebert was one of the most respected film critics in the business. Millions turned to his article in the Chicago Sun-Times or his blog to see what he had said about upcoming movies. He transcended film criticism and became a true cultural icon whose presence is missed and remembered fondly. He was […]
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15 Great Movies That Use Natural Landscape Wonderfully
Mankind and nature, the relationship between the human figure and the landscape has accompanied the visual arts since the first cave paintings, all the way through the Dutch landscapes painters, the Romantic age with its theorizations of the sublime, of the individual being overwhelmed but at the same time embraced by the absoluteness of nature. […]