In many Western circles, animated film is fundamentally affiliated with child-friendly films spawned by the likes of Disney and Pixar. From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Toy Story, the capability of animation to portray imaginative worlds in imaginative ways has enriched childhoods for several generations. Of course, animation has not been limited to […]
Month: August 2014
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The 12 Most Divisive Movies of The 21st Century (So Far)
Cinema has produced some rough diamonds and some that are like a composite of a beautiful crystal and a rusty nail. They have become known in the modern lexicon as “marmite movies”; films that polarize critics and audiences alike. Like the substance itself, marmite is either so good it’s part of your taste buds or […]
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12 Hilarious Mockumentaries That Are Worth Your Time
A mockumentary, a combination of the words “mock” and “documentary”, is a film (or television show) in which is certain subject is spoofed by relaying fictional events in a documentary-like manner as if they are real. The subject of the mockumentary is thereby parodied, although often the very form of documentaries themselves is also spoofed […]
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The 30 Best Movie Musicals Of All Time
The musical genre has been one of the most successful film genres in the history of cinema. The genre has been around since the early 1920s. Once silent pictures started to fade away and talkies began to take over Hollywood, it was only natural that music and film would be blended as one. In 1927, […]
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The 15 Best Robin Williams Movies You Need To Watch
Like countless others across the world, I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Robin Williams. To me, this man was an utter lightning bolt in human form. An insanely gifted comedian and actor, his light shone twice as bright as most of his contemporaries. Born in 1951, Williams was a star […]
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15 Japanese Fantasy-Action Films That Will Make Your Head Spin
In Japanese cinema, often one comes across films that are incredibly difficult to categorize. Are they science fiction? Horror? Comedy? All of the above? A lot of the time, when one encounters this fascinating area of Japanese cult films, the answer is yes. For the amateur cinephile and aficionado alike, it is exactly that hard-to-pin-down, […]