When assembling a chronological list of the ten best Westerns of the 1960s, one thing seems abundantly clear: the middle years of the decade are surprisingly barren. The first few years of the 1960s feel massively different stylistically to the outstanding Westerns of 1969; as if the assassination of President Kennedy had fractured America’s self-belief […]
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10 Great Recent Western Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
Gone are the days when the Western genre once compromised 30% of Hollywood’s output. Back then, in the postwar period until the late 1950s, every actor and their mums surely made at least one cowboy picture. As for now? Audiences are lucky if they get one a year. What is curious though is that because […]
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10 Great 2000s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
Given how many films are released these days, it’s understandable that many of them go under the radar and end up becoming completely forgotten. For every box office hit or critical success of the 2000 to 2009 era, there are tons of movies that died at the theatres and received an often unfair kicking from […]
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The 10 Best Western Movies of The 1970s
Every champion must die and every empire must fall; the inevitability of decline after incredible success is part of nature’s course correction. Look no further than the recent diminishment of superhero cinema or the collapse of the musical in the last few decades of the 20th century. The Western, an endlessly reliable source of income […]
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10 Classic 1980s American Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
The 1980s were a lucrative, glorious time for the movies. The blockbuster ruled the box office, and cinema-going was at its highest for decades. Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future dominated popular culture, with sequels and franchises ensuring fans kept coming back to the theatre to see their favourite stars up on […]
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All 10 Best Picture Winners of The 1980s Ranked From Worst To Best
You either love ’em or hate ’em, but the Oscars are virtually impossible to ignore altogether. That remains as true today as it was back in the 1980s, a transformative decade for Hollywood that saw the movie industry pivot away from the high-risk, high-reward auteur-driven business model of the ’70s towards the current one with […]