One of the great independents of American cinema, Kelly Reichardt has a relatively small body of work compared to most of her contemporaries, but practically every single one of her films is an essential piece of the last 20 years of indie filmmaking. That’s something that definitively cannot be said for the majority of other […]
Year: 2021
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10 Underrated South Korean Movies That Everybody Should See
At the tail end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the powers that be in Hollywood discovered something they hadn’t realised before. Which was that there was a real hunger amongst movie-goers to see effects-laden fantasy cinema that was based on prior cultural work. The X-Men, Harry Potter, The Lord Of […]
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The 10 Best Movies To Come Out of Dead Genres
“There will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western.” Steven Spielberg said this back in 2015, and while superhero movies have not died out yet, he does have a point. Genre popularity in film is finite. Sure, there are revivals and resurgences, but a good amount of film genres […]
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The 10 Best Conspiracy Horror Movies
Horror has long stood as a genre of many varying facets, mostly for the fact that fear is a primary emotion, and what scares us ranges drastically from person to person. Everyone has experienced fear in some capacity, even if sometimes we don’t care to admit it, and so the empathy we feel with the […]
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10 Great Films That Didn’t Receive a Single Oscar Nomination This Year
It’s never possible to satisfy everyone with awards or film listings, because tastes are always different, but you at least hope that some of your favorite films are in contention to get at least a little bit of recognition. Unfortunately, more often than not they come up short. This year was the same. To be […]
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10 Beautiful Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
What makes a movie beautiful? Some films gain recognition for the inherent beauty in their subject matter, such as sprawling landscapes or majestic movements of wildlife, while other films make aesthetic use of more unsightly subject matter by transforming things like death and decay into art using cinematic technique. Though an undeniably subjective metric by […]