In 1998 Martin Scorsese compiled a list of his favourite guilty pleasures for Film Comment magazine. Included with them were a further hundred films, termed his “random pleasures”. These were grouped into fifty he considers “unguilty [but] something spoils them”, and fifty which on the whole are “not good” but still “worthwhile”. Widely regarded as […]
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The 10 Most Surprisingly Good Movies of 2020
Every year, there is a slew of massive cinematic disappointments. While this continues to leave people frustrated, it is an unfortunate inevitability. As a cinephile, you will never make it through a year without a Batman v Superman or Terminator Genisys. Although it’s easy to make this the subject matter of your film-focused discussions, there […]
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10 Great Psychological Thrillers You’ve Probably Never Seen
Many people have always had a certain fascination for and curiosity about violence and calamity. Psychological thrillers not only give us those delicious cinematic thrills where we find ourselves in an unusual and suspenseful atmosphere, but they also make us explore the mind and the psychology of broken minds, souls, and morally ambiguous people. We […]
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10 Great Films Shot By Emmanuel Lubezki
There’s a reason why Emmanuel Lubezki is one of the most renowned cinematographers working in Hollywood today. If you’re thinking that that reason is that he has shot some of the biggest Oscar movies of the last twenty years, you wouldn’t be wrong. But why do directors like Cuarón and Malik continue to team up […]
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All 8 Best Picture Nominees From 2020 Ranked From Worst To Best
2020 was certainly an untraditional film year, but despite the odds stacked against cinephiles, the Academy Awards actually produced one of the stronger Best Picture lineups in recent memory. It can be debated whether the eight films chosen are a good representation of what the year in cinema had to offer, but each was worthy […]
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10 Great Ozploitation Movies You May Have Never Seen
Ozploitation. Not The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – we’re talking about Australian genre cinema of the 70s and 80s! In the early 70s, Australia’s government decided to create Australia’s own cinema culture by founding the Australian Film Commision. Emerging from the shadows of the Australian New Wave, ozploitation found itself answering to Australia’s primal, grindhouse […]