For as long as the cinematic medium has been around, moral watchdogs have long sought to expose the allegedly deleterious effects of violent movies on the impressionable young mind. As the most graphic and explicit of genres, it’s not really surprising that horror films represent a perennial target for parents groups and censorship boards alike. […]
Month: February 2017
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1980s Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked From Worst To Best
This is the fifth examination at every Academy Award for Best Picture winner, and this is where the history of winners really starts to slow down. After the blazing experimentations of the ‘60s and ‘70s winners, something happened in the ‘80s that created the phenomenon we all know as “Oscar Bait”. Films got schmaltzy like […]
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7 Reasons Why “Naked” is a Masterpiece of British Cinema
Austere and uncompromising, Mike Leigh’s tragicomic film from 1993, Naked, is arguably his level best and certainly the bleakest British masterpiece of the 1990s. A controversial and compelling compass of urban society, this staggering arthouse triumph––it won best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival––is a showcase of several talents and […]
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10 Living Directors Who Have Never Made a Bad Movie
Spielberg, Cameron, Coppola, Fincher, and the Coens. These are top-of-the-line directors with names even a casual moviegoer would recognize. They’re legends who have built up incredible filmographies any prospective director would kill for. But not even they were susceptible to having a bad film once and awhile. Cameron started with that Piranha movie and Fincher […]
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1970s Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked From Worst To Best
This is the fourth entry in this series, where every Academy Award for Best Picture winner gets ranked. This is the greatest decade in the history of the Academy. While the most recent years have had great results in winners (the Academy has swung back around from the lowest levels of Oscar Bait territory in […]
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15 Famous Movies That Broke World Records
Making and breaking records is a pastime which dates back thousands of years. From the ancient Greeks to modern day, breaking a record is seen as a true measurement of success in a particular field. In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver – the managing director of Guinness Breweries – conceived the idea of the ‘Guinness Book […]