There are some exceptional cases when a good actor/actress was born that way. Some of them were on the most wanted list in their first try in movie industry. Some of these natural born talents are still remembered; some are almost or totally forgotten. But a goal on the first shot is always something cool […]
Month: April 2015
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15 Things That Stanley Kubrick Can Teach You About Filmmaking
It’s my belief that you can learn over a hundred things from watching a single Stanley Kubrick film. Kirk Douglas called him a “talented shit”, referring to Kubrick’s exasperating perfectionist streak; he was famous for doing take, after take, after take until he got exactly what he was looking for. He was a firm, sometimes […]
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The 10 Best Tom Cruise Movies You Need To Watch
As a sixth Mission: Impossible movie comes our way this year, we are again reminded as to why, complain as we might, we still love Tom Cruise. You’d never believe he’s approaching his 53rd birthday as he once again becomes über secret agent Ethan Hunt trying to take down the Rogue Nation, a sort of […]
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The 20 Best Movies about Art and Artists
“Films about art and artists” covers a variety of things, from biopics about artists dead or imagined, to documentaries on living ones. However, the best of them are the ones that are able to teach us something about the medium they depict, or about the people who create it. These films portray artists as compelled […]
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10 David Lynch-Like Movies Not By David Lynch
David Lynch has a cinema of his own, a cinema so familiar yet strange that can only be described as Lynchian. His trademarks are his fascination with dark secrets of small cities, his taste for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rotting environments, distorted characters, a polarized world (angels vs. demons, Madonnas vs. whores), debilitating damage […]
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The 25 Best Action Movies of All Time
While there have always been thrilling and exciting movies since film began, action as a distinct genre did not emerge until the later half of the 20th century. Action movies quickly became one of the most popular genre of movie in Hollywood, ruling box offices and attracting big stars and budgets. The excitement and testosterone […]