Where do all the lost films usually go to be discovered? In the heyday of the home cinema (VHS, Beta or Laserdisc), circa mid-1980s, independently owned stores would stock titles that Blockbuster and other chains wouldn’t. Some would wind up on various television channels late at night or eventually go straight go to DVD, before […]
Our growing fascination with technology has spawned a plethora of films highlighting a variety of sci-fi gadgets and futuristic technology that we can only dream of. Many ideas presented in tech films from decades past have come to fruition (especially in telecommunications). As our technology grows in its complexity, so have these films grown in […]
The thin blue line has been featured time and time again throughout cinema history. From hardboiled detective thrillers to intense character studies, corrupt police officers have been a fixture in movies. Sometimes we may root for the hero, the Boy Scout, the white knight who swoops in to clean up the crooked police department but […]
For the United States of America it’s soccer. For the rest of the world it’s football. It is the most popular sport on Earth. In fact, in Europe, it’s not even a sport anymore, it’s a business; but that’s another story. The passion football stirs up in people’s hearts is incomparable to anything on this […]
In January 2014, the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis wrote a piece titled, “As Indies Explode, An Appeal For Sanity”, in which she bemoaned the fact that there were too many films being released right now, most of them lackluster, forgettable and just plain bad movies. Salon followed up with another piece on what they’re […]
Mumblecore started around 2002 with films like Funny HA HA by Andrew Bujalski and 2005 with the Puffy Chair by Mark and Jay Duplass. More recent films like 2013 Drinking Buddies by Joe Swanberg has gone mainstream. One of the few elements that described this genre are low budget and naturalism which can be in […]