In an exhilarating decade that gave movie-goers films like Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Titanic, Silence of the Lambs, Do the Right Thing, and so much more, the film industry in the 1990’s was blowing up with revolutionary ideas and filmmakers. However, even in an era of success, there were also films that quietly sat on […]
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10 Great Drama Movies That Unfold Like Thrillers
Sometimes a film – in this case, a drama – can contain so much tension and suspense that we are white knuckling it throughout its runtime. These films don’t cross over into another genre but strictly focus on the people at hand – that’s the main interest, not set pieces or crazy plot twists. Here […]
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10 Great Westerns You’ve Probably Never Seen
The film industry was flooded with westerns from the mid-1930s’ the whole way up through the 1970s’. For decades, every week after week, audiences would see the release of multiple new westerns at their cinema and these themes and motifs became ingrained in our pop culture and modern entertainment. So many great films fell to […]
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10 Films To Watch To Understand Montage Theory
Montage Theory, the staple of college Cinema Studies classes, holds that the juxtaposition of images via editing can make meaning beyond what can be represented visually. Described by Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s, who sought to apply their new country’s philosophy (dialecticism) to this exciting new art form of cinema, montage theory has since found […]
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The 10 Most Influential American Movies of The 1990s
The nineties have been described as the last great decade in America; an overall more optimistic time before the September 11th terrorist attacks, invasion of Iraq and 2008 financial crash that have defined the 21st century thus far. The internet was a rising innovation treated with excitement and intrigue and Donald Trump wasn’t even the […]
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10 Classic Comedy Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
When comedy is good, it is amazing, and when comedy is bad, it is excruciating to witness. There are only so many times a person can say “that joke was not funny” or “that gag did not land” before wanting to turn off the television and throw the movie at the wall. In other words, […]