2014 has been a fantastic year for cinema, ranging from the routine spectacles of summer blockbusters, to the independently produced character pieces. Throw in new masterpieces from greats such as David Fincher, Wes Anderson, and Paul Thomas Anderson, and you have a year rich with cinema that is bound to butt heads come award season. […]
Year: 2014
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14 Great Movies to Set the Tone for Your New Year’s Resolutions
If there is something we can undoubtedly say about films, it’s that they have the power to influence our mood. Since it’s the end of the year, and few can elude the temptation to make lists, promises to oneself and all sorts of plans, here is a little incentive to get you started: a list […]
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The 20 Best Time Travel Movies of All Time
Travelling back in time to change fate has always been the dreams of mankind. Early in 1888, the great H. G. Wells wrote a short story about time travelling, it’s called The Chronic Argonauts. It predates his more famous time travelling novel The Time Machine by 7 years. The first notable film in this genre […]
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The 12 Best Matthew McConaughey Movie Performances
In the last few years, Matthew McConaughey has come to be known for tackling deeply philosophical and emotionally complex roles. Namely he played introspective Detective Rust Cohle, alongside the brusque yet charismatic Woody Harrelson, in the critically successful True Detective. Later in the year he played the space-bound pilot and torn father Cooper in Interstellar. […]
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The 20 Best Japanese Movies of The 21st Century
Rashomon, Akira, Tokyo Story, Ikiru, Ugetsu, Late Spring, Seven Samurai, Harakiri, Twenty-Four Eyes and Yojimbo. The list can go on and on forever, but today we will be focusing on the modern Japanese films that derive from the year 2000 and onwards. This list is not disregarding other movies, but giving breathing room for movies […]
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The 10 Best Movies That Use Reverse Chronology
First and crucially, the films explored in this list feature a story or sub-story told backwards. The first film to feature a sequence where the events happen in reverse was Jean Epstein’s “La glace à trois faces” (The Three Sided Mirror) in 1927, but the most well known use of this technique was made in […]