Tension or suspense is one of the greatest things about literature and film. It allows us to safely explore our innermost fears. We can experience these emotions and feel the tightening of our stomachs from the safety of a chair in the knowledge that it will end and we will be safe. During a film, […]
Author: Richard Austin
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All 13 Star Trek Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
After the original three-season run of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek on NBC television, it looked highly unlikely that there would be any more of it to come. After so many episodes, ideas had run out and the show was stuck, as the USS Enterprise had been so many times, without even impulse power to drive […]
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8 Reasons Why “American History X” is a Modern Masterpiece of American Cinema
Tony Kaye’s 1998 film about a reformed neo-Nazi trying to piece together his broken life after a stint in prison has lost none of its punch since its release. If anything, it remains as shockingly relevant in today’s society as it did in the pre-9/11 world in which it first aired. Besides the controversial subject […]
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All 24 James Bond Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Hollywood studios weren’t interested in making Bond films. They were ‘too British’. It was Albert “Cubby” Broccoli who saw the value of Ian Fleming’s novels as potential feature films. Broccoli, a native of Queens, New York was living in London at the time, taking advantage of the subsidies offered to people willing to make films […]
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9 Reasons Why “Children of Men” Is The Best Sci-fi Movie of The 21st Century (So Far)
Before his Oscar success with 2013’s astronaut thrill-ride, Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón sat in the director’s chair for the film adaptation of PD James’ 1992 dystopian book, The Children of Men, predicting a world where there are no children being born. Cuarón had already enjoyed acclaim for his work on the third (and best) Harry Potter […]
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All 10 David Lynch Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
This list should be prefaced with the assertion that the ‘worst’ of David Lynch’s films is a very different idea to the worst of many other directors’ respective back catalogues. Each time that David Lynch has taken the helm on a feature film, the result has been something adventurous, challenging and, most importantly provoking discussion […]