It’s almost Valentine’s Day but that doesn’t mean that film lovers need to get gushy and overly sentimental when it comes to romantic cinema. One of the most moving and exciting subjects of love-driven movies orbit around the idea of amour fou –– mad love. When love gets dangerous or toxic, as romances turns to […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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The 10 Best Western Movies Set in Modern Times
The Hollywood Western was once one of the most preeminent and stirring of genres. Set in the late 19th century, attentive to Old West myth-making, folk heroes, and morality tales, it was an altogether American invention. In Hollywood’s Golden Age the Western was exceedingly popular, nothing else was as popular and directors like John Ford […]
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The 20 Most Overlooked Movies of 2018
2018 had more than its fair share of blockbuster releases, from Marvel and DC superheroes smacking each other around to Star Wars spin-off space operatics unfolding with seemingly limitless budgets and big name stars. And while such large studio fare gets most of the attention when it comes to audiences plaudits, lots of foreign-language films […]
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The 20 Most Visually Stunning Movies of 2018
Wow, 2018 was a particularly strong and stunning year for film. With so many awe-inspiring visuals lighting up our living rooms, bijous, drive-ins, and multiplexes the world over, Taste of Cinema continues our exciting and tireless search for the most visually exquisite films of 2018. As ever, such a task was no easy charge, and […]
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The 30 Best Movies of 2018
With the sun now setting on 2018, Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from the exciting year that was. To anyone of the opinion that 2018 was a mediocre year at the multiplex, you just weren’t looking hard enough. Even just narrowing the titles down to a workable 30 titles was no small feat […]
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The 15 Best Horror Movies of 2018
2018 has been a great year for horror fans. Sure there were a few sequels nobody asked for, though a few of those were actually rather well done (the following list sidesteps Johannes Roberts’s The Strangers: Prey at Night and Colin Hardy’s The Nun, but both films reward a late night watch), and there’s a […]