“I’ll be back!”, “Phone home,” “Like tears in rain…” All these lines or speeches are still popular today as ever. The 1980s were such a great decade for the genre. The technological advancement was helping the films look better and go to areas they haven’t before but it was also one of the main subjects […]
Cool movies come in many forms. There’s the sort of adrenaline-pumping badass moment that leaves you breathless and hollering at the screen. Think, for instance, of Arnold Schwarzenegger soaring through the air on his 780-pound Harley Davidson Fatboy in “Terminator 2”, Keanu Reeves dodging bullets and unleashing a barrage of gunfire in slow-mo in “The […]
Lots of people have called the westerns the most distinctively American genre and of course, it makes sense, it usually sets in the American frontier overall! However, as obvious from Sergio Leone’s films, not all the best westerns were made in America. So many people around the world enjoyed the western formula and its mythology. […]
They say Roger Ebert appreciated all kinds of films and always judged films by their own intention and target demographic. That’s true, that’s what made him special but when you look at it, when it comes to horror films, Roger Ebert was not too easy to please. He rarely gave a horror film his “perfect” […]
The appeal of the thriller movie is quite simple and universal: In its platonic form, it scratches a particular itch and satisfies our collective urge for action and suspense in a way that frankly no other genre can. No generation of moviegoers has ever grown tired of shelling out for new titles that will get […]
Cinema has always asked profound and timeless questions: What is it to be human? Are we alone in the cosmos? What is the meaning of life? It’s hard to pin down what makes a movie inherently philosophical, it’s not based on set criteria and they come in all shapes and forms — from bleak post-apocalyptic […]