Female disintegration has long been a vehicle, on and off screen, for exploring the societal ills that plague women and become the crosses they unwillingly and unwittingly bear. Wildly worth noting is how two of the films on this list are directed by women. The monopoly of men within the cinematic landscape of female unraveling […]
Year: 2018
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10 Movie Trilogies That Get Better With Each Film
Since the invention of the rules of storytelling, the established formula for a satisfying tale is the three-act structure: beginning, middle and end. It’s no surprise then that the template for a complete series of movies is that of the three-parter. It’s been done time and time again yet usually due to studio’s milking successful […]
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The 15 Best Movie Montages of All Time
Montage is one of the main (if not the one) traits of film form. It a tool that has puzzled filmmakers from Edwin S. Porter to Joshua Oppenheimer, and it is because montages enable them to structure time and space in forms that, while different from reality, express a deeper version of it. Thus, it […]
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All 13 Nicolas Roeg Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“Nicolas Roeg is a chillingly chic director.” – Pauline Kael Born in 1928, polymath filmmaker Nicolas Roeg – who turns 90 on August 18th of this year – began his cinematic career as a camera operator (early credits include Ken Hughes’s The Trials of Oscar Wilde [1960] and 2nd unit photographer on the David Lean […]
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10 Great Movies You Need To See To Really Understand BDSM
When most people think of “BDSM”, they might immediately have an idea in mind about what it means. In the world of film, however, BDSM isn’t all whips and chains. Relationships can be depicted in different ways that are not heteronormative, often to great results. Before the recent popularizing of Fifty Shades of Grey, there […]
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The 10 Most Insane Movie Productions of All Time
One of the great tricks of cinema is making the impossible seem not only possible, but effortless and incidental, “as if by magic.” Little do we know, as average movie goers, what great toils and sacrifices go into the production of a given film. Whether it’s a big-budget adventure film like The Lord of the […]