From timeless classics to joyful fluff, cinema is a wonderful way to achieve delight, escape, and exhilaration. The following list is for anyone who’s ever watched with delight the madcap tomfoolery of the Marx Brothers, or chuckled to themselves while in line at the grocery store recalling, say, Madeline Kahn’s hilarious crooning in Blazing Saddles […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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The 20 Best Movies With All-Star Casts
From the earliest days of cinema audiences have gathered to gaze at the flickering play of lights in movie houses, primarily to see their favorite glamorous stars. The dream factories in Hollywood were quick to catch on that the biggest names in Hollywood would reel in the biggest crowds and generate the biggest box office […]
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The 20 Best Movies Adapted from or Inspired by Philip K. Dick
“For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first.” — Terry Gilliam Today considered one of the most favored and influential American sci-fi writers of all time, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) has, since his death, been the focal point of a rare and deserved reappraisal. […]
Pulling Focus: Good Time (2017)
“Are you feeling this? are you feeling as good as I’m feeling right now?” – Connie Nikas (played by Robert Pattinson) We’re here for a good time, not a long time Running-on-ice at breakneck speed are a pair of expeditious society’s free agents in the frenzied form of Constantine “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) and […]
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10 Movies With The Best Uses of Color of All Time
“Films use light and color to tell a story in a special narrative way,” says filmmaker Martin Scorsese, adding that such storytelling techniques “…deliver a strong emotional and intellectual impact on the viewer… [This realization] made a very strong impression on me and has affected how I try to use color in all of my […]
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The 15 Best Movies of the 21st Century with Little or No Dialogue
From cinema’s infancy when the Lumière brothers screened the first short films in the late 1800s to the development of narrative films during the silent era and onwards to the massive multiplexes of today’s 21st Century, all of the iconic imagery associated with cinema is due to it being a dominantly visual medium. All of […]