Perfection is subjective when it comes to art. A mathematical equation can only have one answer, no matter what those Facebook shareable quizzes tell you. When it comes to art, it is all about your interpretation. For action buffs, a perfect film may be the one that exhilarates them the most. For comedy enthusiasts, the […]
Year: 2018
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10 Great 2018 Movies You May Not Have Seen
Movies are being released so fast all around the world that it is often very difficult to keep up with them. It is even harder to keep up with more independent films that aren’t constantly appearing on billboards or on social media. So it is no wonder that every year there will be hundreds of […]
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10 Movies That Ruined Famous Directors’ Careers
The opportunities to direct Hollywood films are few and far in between. But often, a prospective indie director is plucked after a couple critical hits and thrust into the driver’s seat of a major blockbuster. Just look at Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Jon Watts, or Josh Trank, and that’s just the “J’s”. And when some of them […]
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10 Directors Whose First Movies Were Their Best
Anybody that has ever directed a film will tell you it is one of the most difficult things they have ever done. Stanley Kubrick mentioned it is “like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car…” There are some people who started out swinging for the fences with their directorial debut. This list […]
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The 25 Most Intelligent Movies of All Time
This list/article is the fourth 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 three previous articles, especially (though by no […]
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10 Great Movies That Never Had a Theatrical Release
Historically, all mass-marketed feature films were made to be shown in theatres. However with the introduction of new technology and with audiences’ needs, habits and demands changing – this is no longer the case. Film and production studios must also consider what type of release strategy will give them the best return on their investments. […]