The American Dream is probably the most pervasive idea in American culture. Work hard and you’ll become rich, successful and happy. It’s a notion that is repeated constantly in American pop culture. Still, the concept is just as routinely challenged as it is reinforced. Here are the top 10 films that redefined the American Dream: […]
Month: August 2014
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The 15 Best Final Films of Legendary Hollywood Actors
Every actor and actress, no matter how successful, comes to the end of their career at some point. Sometimes they get to choose when they go by simply retiring but often their last work is only their last work because of their passing. Not every great star had one of their biggest movies be their […]
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The 10 Best Audrey Hepburn Movies You Need To Watch
Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels in 1929. The daughter of a Dutch Baroness and a one-time honorary British consul in the Dutch East Indies, she spent her early life in Belgium, England and the Netherlands, where she lived in Arnhem under German occupation during World War II. After the war she […]
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10 Films That Had The Biggest Influences On Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs
When explaining why he dropped out of film school, Paul Thomas Anderson said “My film making education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and mags…Film school is a complete con, because the information is out there is you want it.” […]
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The 15 Best Robert De Niro Movies You Need To Watch
Having recently written a piece on Al Pacino, considered by many as one of the heavyweights of acting in cinema, it would be a great disservice not to write a piece on Robert De Niro. That would be like Mick Jagger without Keith Richards, or bourbon without coke! Born in 1943, De Niro came to […]
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10 Great Film Directors Who Died Early In Their Careers
Artists come and go, but when one dies early in his career the questions are inevitable. Questions like, did he reach his potential? What other stuff he would’ve done? Was he destined for success or was he doomed to failure? Fortunately for fans of cinema, most of the greatest film directors ever have lived for […]