Filmmaking is not cheap. Not only does it require a lot of very expensive and specialized equipment but also dozens of people working long hours for weeks or even months at a time. The Directors Guild of America defines high-budget as being anything above $11 million and although that is a considerable amount of money, […]
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10 Masterpieces of Asian Art Cinema Every Movie Fan Should See
Asian cinema is always a force to be reckoned with in the world cinema scene. Early in the 1950s, Japan and India had made internationally acclaimed films that introduced a different culture and film language to the West. Between 1960s and 1980s, filmmakers from Japan, Iran and Hong Kong were inspired to make New Wave […]
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10 Great Movies That Deglamorize Their Subject Matters
If there is one thing that the film industry is regularly accused of, it is glorifying or glamourizing certain issues within their movies. Some films take the aspects of an issue that will look good on camera rather than aspects that are actually important to the issues they are supposedly tackling, they brush over elements […]
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30 Great Detective Movies That Are Worth Your Time
A graven image from the first moments of film, the detective was an archetypal hero from the hard-boiled school seminary of crime stories and early cinema through to present day. Sometimes referred to as a private eye, a peeper, a gumshoe, shamus, dick or a sleuth, and usually an embodiment of über male machismo, detective […]
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The 10 Best Movies With Multi-Layered Reality
A flowchart is the simplest path to follow a logical sequence. By answering “yes or no” questions, science comes to conclude information through trial and error. But cinema is much more than just science, entertainment, an industry, or a hobby: it is an art, it transcends us all and unites humanity in many ways. One […]
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The 10 Best Movies Influenced by Kierkegaardian Philosophy
Soren Kierkegaard was an interesting man. A Danish philosopher, he is often considered the first existentialist (though yes, existentialism is much older than Kierkegaard), as well as a theologian and social critic. His works deal with faith, ethical life, repetition, choice, despair, and everything else related to living as an individual. Many of his writings […]