At a high school dance, four teenagers share a bottle of peach schnapps under a table. On her way to Versailles, a girl steams up a carriage window with her breath, trying to pass the time. After flying from Italy to Los Angeles, a father and daughter listen as a guitar player sings “(Let Me […]
Month: April 2017
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10 Movies Roger Ebert Rated Zero Stars You Should Watch Anyway
When it comes to film criticism we’re all pretty much students of Roger Ebert. No film critic has ever had as much influence on the minds of the masses than the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, and it’s safe to say none have been as beloved as the Pulitzer Prize winner, either. In a career spanning about […]
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7 Reasons Why “Ghost in the Shell” Deserves a Second Look
Spoiler Alert! Please do not read this list if you are concerned about spoilers. If, however, before seeing this movie you are concerned you might not like it because of things you have read or heard—perhaps to the point where you’ve decided you don’t even want to see it at all—then the spoilers contained within […]
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10 Movies That Literally Made People Sick
There are certain films that are too much for some to handle. They can be violent, extreme, uncomfortable, offensive or just so downright awful one has to avert direct eye contact. However, there are movies – a fine selection of them – that had the magnificent prowess, if one may call it so, to actually […]
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10 Recent Horror Movies with a Creative Premise
As of late, horror movies seem to be mass produced, relying on the same old formula regardless of the genre. And with classic horrors getting remade every year, audiences are starving for original content. The first thing that will attract audiences to the theaters will be the premise given that horror films very rarely rely […]
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5 Reasons Why “Stoker” is a Criminally Underrated Movie
With the growing popularity South Korean cinema has been enjoying internationally, the transfer of Korean filmmakers to Hollywood was inevitable. From the three directors that made the step, Park Chan-wook with “Stoker”, Kim Jee-woon with “The Last Stand”, and Bong Joon-ho with “Snowpiercer”, the first one was the most controversial film among the critics, since […]