Dun dun dun da dun da dun dun. The nerve inducing tones of the Imperial March could well have accompanied the making of Solo: A Star Wars Story. Awash with issues from the outset, the film suffered many behind the scenes problems. Not only were original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller fired and replaced […]
Year: 2018
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All 27 Leonardo DiCaprio Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
This is a ranking of Leonardo DiCaprio’s films, not his performances, although I do try to take the quality of his performance into account when assessing the quality of the film in question. I’m leaving out “Poison Ivy” (1992) because DiCaprio only appears on screen for a few seconds and has no lines. 27. […]
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The 25 Most Emotionally Complex Movies of All Time
This list/article is the fifth in a series arguing that for cinema to-be-and-to-be-taken-seriously as an art-form, it must forgo-and-move-beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways-of-meaning-formation/understanding into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emo-tion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, behavior/psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised to read my four previous articles, especially (though-by-no-means-only) the lengthy-theoretical/aesthetic introduction to the first, which obvious-ly-cannot […]
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10 Visually Stunning Movies That Are Still Terrible
There’s plenty of discussion to have about what makes a visually stunning film; some movies manage a harmonious marriage between visual stunts and storytelling, and some prioritize one over the other. Conversely, what some people might consider beautiful, others might consider gimmicky and overall unworthy of praise. In this list, I’ve strived to collect a […]
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The 20 Most Cinematic Television Episodes of All Time
Some might consider putting the words “cinematic” and “television” together in one sentence a heresy. How could a medium largely confined to entertaining an audience that never wants to be challenged, be compared to what is one of the greatest art forms of our generation? How can its fragmented, disjointed, recklessly infantile structuring ever come […]
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The 10 Most Brutal Movies Ever Made
Violence has been around since of dawn of film, that much is clear. Mankind has always been fascinated by brutality, but of course none would truly explore it lest they be imprisoned and punished by it. As film and its technology evolved, it gave way for filmmakers to revel in the multiple ways they could […]