The Academy Awards are a source of both irritation and recognition for film fans. In many ways, the process of celebrating the best films of each year may give cinephiles the chance to see some of their favorite artists receive further honors for their exemplary work. However, it’s also quite annoying to see that the […]
Year: 2021
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10 Great Noir Films You May Have Never Seen
The film historian Sheri Chinen Biesen writes in her book “Blackout” that there are two separate strains of film noir—one arose during wartime, the other followed it: “These early noir films created a psychological atmosphere that in many ways marked a response to an increasingly realistic and understandable anxiety – about war, shortages, changing gender […]
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The 15 Best Cosmic Horror Movies of All Time
Cosmic horror is one of the most complex types of horror to examine. It is also one of the bleakest subgenres of horror. Based on the literary philosophy, Cosmicism, developed by the writer H. P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror focuses on the power of the sublime in order to make people feel inconsequential and small. There […]
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10 Great New Hollywood Movies You May Have Never Seen
Classical Hollywood ran from 1910 to 1960 and might be the most influential and successful cinema ‘movement’ in history. Everybody knows major titles and film stars in the genre, some of whom have gotten a legendary status over the years. New Hollywood was a broadly defined movement starting in the 1960’s and ending in the […]
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10 Great Postmodern Sci-fi Movies To Blow Your Mind
Scifi has always been a vehicle for the exploration of philosophical, abstract problems actualized in imaginative technologies, theoretical futures, and alien worlds. Consider the Matrix films’ staging of problems surrounding artificial intelligence, Platonic/Descartian themes of consciousness and reality, in the digestible form of an action thriller, adapted to a reemerging interest in virtual reality technology […]
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20 Great Films From 2020 You May Have Overlooked
For the most part, Taste of Cinema’s 2020 movie coverage has come to a close but, as with previous years, we fell head over heels for a number of films that seemed to get short shrift on other movie sites or, largely owing to the pandemic, didn’t get the propers that they so richly deserved. […]