Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai has been making films now for almost 30 years, and yet somehow he remains more obscure to contemporary audiences than he was about 15 years ago, when his turn of the century film In the Mood For Love won most international film awards it was presented with. Since then, […]
Month: April 2017
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10 Totally Awesome Thrillers From The 2010s (So Far)
The latest decade–the one we are currently in–in cinema has been marked by a new edginess in its narrative tone: now that film has well passed the century mark as a cultural product, and thanks to incredible technical advancements in recent years, more films are being produced on their own terms and on smaller budgets […]
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5 Reasons Why “They Live” Is The Orwellian “1984” of Cinema
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubble gum.” The character John Nada, played by professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper, announces this line, armed with a shotgun as he prepares to blast away at aliens disgusted as human beings inside a bank in John Carpenter’s film “They […]
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The 15 Best Movies About The Misfortunes of Love
Much has been said about love, for it is one of the most powerful emotions we can feel. It is said that it’s universal, that wherever you go there is love to be found; there is love in creation and love in destruction. When it’s good, life seems joyful and colorful, and when it doesn’t […]
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The 10 Best Sci-fi Movies Adapted from The Works of H.G. Wells
British author, journalist and historian Herbert George Wells is often referred to as the Father of modern science fiction; a bold and grandiose title that is, to his fans and scholars, by no means an overstatement. There is little debate that the man was a true literary genius – imaginative and prophetical, yet modest and […]
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The 10 Greatest Movie Femme Fatales of The 21st Century
Formulas are meant to be broken. The femme fatale character type is one of the greatest examples of this, next to the lone ranger and the anti-hero. Since the dawn of film noir, seductive female characters have been the cause of twists and turns in a multitude of ways. However, film noir disappeared, and so […]