Part of the magic inherent to a classic film is that there is no set formula for producing one. Virtually every genre, convention, tone, and method of execution available to the filmmaker has produced at least one masterpiece. Thus, there are no rules totally set in stone for an artistic masterpiece in cinema. Instead, inspired […]
Author: Ross Carey
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The 15 Best Movies Made By Directors Over The Age of 75
Quentin Tarantino has certainly never been kind in his appraisal of the ageing director. In 2012, in the midst of an infamous interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the Django Unchained press tour, he stated that “directors are like boxers, they have their time.” A statement that, whilst harsh, is nowhere near as cutting Tarantino’s previous […]
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The 20 Best Indie Movies of 2015
Fans of indie cinema have always enjoyed a fairly rich smorgasbord of styles, themes, and genres. Indie can, naturally, refer to budgetary restrictions, and can indicate an “independance” from the major studio system. Yet, for many, Indie is simply a state of mind, an outsider spirit, and a dedication to quirkiness rather than Blockbuster convention. […]
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The 20 Best Comeback Movie Performances of All Time
In Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950), one of the finest films ever made concerning the cruel mistress that is show business, the protagonist Gloria Swanson, a faded silent film actress, boldly declares “I am big, it’s the pictures that got small.” This may be an obvious delusion, but, self-deception aside, the cold reality is that […]
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The 30 Best Indie Movies of The Last 30 Years
Kurt Cobain once famously said that “punk rock is freedom.” By this, he meant that divorced from the dogma of mainstream rock, he was free to express himself however he wished, however odd or shocking that expression may well have been. This, evidently, helped him to keep his work intensely personal. If there is one […]
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The 15 Best Documentaries You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now
The return of the documentary in this era has been nothing short of a cinematic renaissance. Long after the golden age of ‘cinema verite” seemed to have drawn its last breath, and the initial rise of the 1970s, the often banality of Reality TV seems to have inspired a whole new generation of documentarians to […]