The Berlin Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in Europe and in the world, has taken every February since 1951. Along with the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, they form the triad of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. Berlinale, as the event is also known, was created as an […]
Month: October 2015
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10 Groundbreaking Movies That Redefined Their Genres
Certain movies just change the shape of their landscape, their success and accomplishments live on to such an extent that every other name in the business tries to emulate or pay homage to what they achieved in one way or another. When these films came along they reinvented their genre and forever altered the way […]
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The 16 Best Movies About Social Hierarchy
The entire history of humanity has revolved around hierarchical structures. Some were organised and austere, such as feudalism in medieval Europe, which involved a clear distinction between nobility and peasantry. Others, however, were lax and anarchic, such as the system of communes and slaves in ancient Rome, which required cooperation from all parties; in the […]
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The 10 Best Horror Movie Franchises of All Time
If there’s one thing that horror fans are blessed with it’s the franchise movie. Quite literally there are hundreds of them and if an original movie does well at the box office you are almost certainly guaranteed that there will be a sequel. Fans are the lifeblood of the franchise without them you’re only getting […]
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The 12 Weirdest Movies About Alien Visitations
When people speak of aliens visiting the earth in movies, they often refer to E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Independence Day or – if they’re more into the cult side of things – films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Thing. In all of these films, the agendas of the extraterrestrial visitors are fairly clear-cut: either they […]
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The 12 Best Movies That Deal With Nuclear Fears and Effects
As he approached his death, Akira Kurosawa explained how the Hiroshima bombing led to the Cold War by stating, “happiness will never be possible given such origins”. The end of the World War II changed world history forever, and made everyone question about humanity, science and society on our planet. Many of these questions came […]