There are two types of films in existence, broadly categorized. One offers us a glimpse of the real world from the comfort of cinema that might be too harrowing and disturbing for us to directly experience; and the other provides us a welcome escape from the hard ways of life through a deftly created fantasy […]
Author: Spandan Banerjee
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10 Great Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
It is probably easier to win a woman’s heart than assuring that a film would be seen and appreciated by a large number of people, even though social scientists seem to prefer the contrary. Every year, thousands of films are released and it is the biggest gamble a person can ever take to think that […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movies of The 2010s
Subjectivity constrains and widens the lens through which we view and experience life, and our own taste of culture and art is widely determined by it. It is infinitely difficult to trace how subjectivity births in us – it can very well be the result of our hierarchical social standing or the cultural influence and […]
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The 25 Best Indie Movies of The 2010s
Art needs combating; it needs to combat with traditions by experimenting with prevailing, age-old customs with which it can present something new. It happened with music, literature, painting, sculpture, and every other form of art; not to mention the cinema, which was once in itself an experimental art form that later persisted. Independent films, often […]
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Top 10 Failed Oscar-Bait Movies of The 2010s
Entertainment doesn’t always have to be original. There are countless parodies, spoofs, and genre-tribute films that continue to amuse people; most of them don’t have a streak of originality in them, but at least they don’t pretend. On the other end, Oscar bait films are known for their pretension: films that are released before awards […]
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The 25 Best Romantic Movies of The 2010s
Romance has a redeeming quality. If one investigates carefully, then the result would show that most of the biggest hits of all time have at least some romantic subplot in them. The truth is that everybody loves a good romance – it helps to forget the mundanity of our daily life in the passionate flames […]