If you were to ask the common everyday person who the greatest director of all time is, I’m willing to bet 9 times out of 10 you’re most likely to hear the name Steven Spielberg. If you know film history, you’ll likely take exception to that statement but in the large scale of things Spielberg […]
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10 Movies That Mark The Decline of Great Directors
There’s no doubt about it, all of the directors I’m highlighting today have at one point been the standard bearers of filmmaking. Each director spoken of today are among the greats of their eras, and arguably of all time. So why am I going to criticize them? Well, like the law of gravity, what goes […]
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The 10 Best Police Procedure Movies of All Time
“The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect the lives, liberty and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.” At least that’s what Wikipedia states in its opening paragraph. Our views on policing is largely like the analogy of blind people touching […]
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The 10 Most Unfairly Hated Movies of The 21st Century
In our current age of technology it seems as though minority voices have gotten louder as more and more people are able to get their views out there for the world to see. These days it seems as though tribalism is dominating our public discourse in a variety of topics and people are very quick […]
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10 Great Movies That Are More Influential Than You Realized
There’s been a great many lists out there counting down what the most influential of all time are, including one I wrote a couple months ago for what I considered the most influential of the 21st Century. But this time around I’m going to tackle films that have changed cinema in ways that have somewhat […]
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10 Great Movies Whose Stories Imitate Actors’ Own Lives
So in my last article I discussed films that I felt their directors were born to make. And fittingly enough I find myself with another similar task but this time with my focus being on the actors. There’s something to be said about the right casting that goes into a film. The best decisions can […]