In just over twenty-five years and nine feature films, Paul Thomas Anderson has developed a body of work that’s unmatched in contemporary cinema. Where other filmmakers of the video store generation swayed towards genre (Quentin Tarantino), or some towards blockbuster actioners (Christopher Nolan), Anderson stayed true to the emotive impulses of classic cinéma vérité, all […]
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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 Underrated French Movies That Everybody Should See
The French have long held their place as the arbiters of many things, from the inimitable architecture of The Eiffel Tower and gothic design of The Notre-Dame, to the precious vineyards of Bordeaux and masterful paintings of The Louvre, but if there’s anything they’ve succeeded in since its inception, it’s the intangible artistry that flickers […]
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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 Movies Made In Dangerous Environments
Ever since the invention of the movie-camera, danger has always served as a core ingredient of cinema. The very nature of its original form is a recipe for disaster, a highly flammable nitrate film-base, used from the time of its invention in 1888 all the way into the early 50s. For whatever reason, when it […]