Born on September 10, 1968, Guy Ritchie was once looked to as the British Quentin Tarantino for his energetic crime films, snappy dialogue and pop culture soundtracks. The 90s were booming with independent filmmakers looking to make their mark, and the success and influence of films like “Goodfellas” and “Pulp Fiction” especially left a trail […]
Month: August 2017
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5 Reasons Why “Alien: Covenant” is 2017’s Most Disappointing Film (So Far)
This summer has been an embarrassment of riches for Hollywood film franchises. While The Mummy, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Transformers: The Last Knight stood out desperate and exhausted, one in particular, Alien: Covenant, directed by visionary Ridley Scott, proved to be this summer’s disappointment. Now, the Alien franchise helmed […]
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The 10 Best Psychological Thrillers of The 21st Century
Under all forms of art, cinema is the supreme discipline, simply because it’s the combination of all of them. A good movie offers a complex structure, a dense web of all layers working seamlessly with each other. In a sense, it reflects the functioning of the human psyche. Therefore, cinema is the ideal form to […]
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10 Great Movies From The 1990s You May Have Missed
The 1990s is a period of great cinematic innovation. Filmmakers from around the world made some of the most critically acclaimed movies of all time. For example, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors Trilogy (1993-1994), Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994), or Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997). However, perhaps due to such numerous amount of great films, some […]
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10 Movies From 2017 That Could Be Nominated for Best Picture
Welcome to Taste of Cinema’s way-too-early Oscar predictions. Okay, this isn’t as early as a lot of other crazy prediction articles, but it’s certainly too early to be remotely accurate. In other words, this list should probably be taken with a grain of salt. That’s not to say there wasn’t a fair amount of thought […]
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All 16 Gus Van Sant Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
A sort of American Andrei Tarkovsky, Gus Van Sant’s films are characterized by long tracking shots, stretches of unbroken silence, and drifting dream-like cinematography that makes seemingly everyday events something unique and special. Often depicting characters that live on the edge of society–either due to their sexual orientation, purposeful defiance of norms, or from being […]