Movies can cause change. Going back to the early days of cinema, visionaries behind the camera and the typewriter have used the medium to translate topical messages in engaging ways. After all, anecdotes and examples can often be the most compelling arguments of all. But something disastrous comes about when filmmakers awkwardly present their own […]
Year: 2021
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Liked “Squid Game”
Once in a while, a show comes up that everybody starts to talk about, and no, not just in one country or region but nearly the whole world. It’s rare but it happens. Sometimes it lasts long, sometimes it doesn’t. We’ll see how “Squid Game” will hold up but there’s no question, this is the […]
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The 10 Best Men On A Mission War Movies
In the canon of dead genres, one of the most sorely missed in the current landscape of cinema is the “men-on-a-mission” war film. The mid-budget, aimed at adult action adventure movie is all but extinct, but there was a time in which they were a regularity; big studios would release these sturdy, terrifically fun pictures […]
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The 10 Best Metamorphosis Movies
What better way to elicit dread than the subversion of the human anatomy? Since Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella in 1915, The Metamorphosis has always been the grounds for interesting narrative material. As a concept, it works on various levels, from exercises in mind-boggling body horror to allegory for depression and grief. It speaks profoundly to […]
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10 Great Sci-fi Films You Probably Haven’t Seen
Science Fiction has captured the imagination of moviegoers ever since Georges Méliès landed a space rocket in the man in the moon’s eye in Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) back in 1902. Perhaps more than any other genre, sci-fi is capable of evoking mankind’s greatest hopes and darkest fears, sometimes […]
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10 Great Recent Thriller Movies You May Have Never Seen
Thrillers, Thrillers, Thrillers. Too many to watch and not enough time. And here we go again: when you’re looking for a thriller, the selection is so huge and overwhelming that you end up watching the same ones again and again. To avoid that, here a list of 10 under appreciated thrillers that you should add […]