Making any movie is usually an extremely collaborative effort. These days, ending credits for summer blockbuster films can run 10 minutes or more. Sometimes we take it for granted just because a bunch of people get together to make a movie, it is worth watching. Potentially, there could be so many factors which could change […]
Month: January 2016
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10 Great Movies Unfairly Rated Lower than 7.0 on IMDB
Far too often, the general movie-going public will rely on an IMDb rating or a Rotten Tomatoes score to determine whether a movie is worth their time. While these can offer a good idea of a movie’s consensus, it’s hardly the zenith of accuracy. Having a divisive audience reaction can easily bifurcate the ratings, and […]
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20 Dark Romantic Films That Are Worth Your Time
It’s hard to mention the genre Romantic-Comedy, let alone the NewSpeak term “Rom-Com”, and not gain a shudder or scream from most of the male species. Sugarcoated images of Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock flood the mind with contrived plots, unrealistic scenarios and all too many storybook happy endings. Sure, they make some […]
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The 10 Greatest Horror Icons in Movie History
Apart from engrossing ourselves in horror movies we also like to pick up on something else within the film and that is the idea of a horror icon. Horror icons are largely born out of the same actor and actress starring in many films in that genre and over a period of time helps too, […]
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The 16 Best TV Series Directed by Movie Directors
With the golden age of television looming large over not only modern cinematic practices but exerting an omnivorously outward reaching hand toward film directors like never before, the time seems right for a look back on the film directors who have, pre-fame or post-fame, looked to the smaller screen as either stepping stone or sabbatical […]
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15 Classic Horror Films That Shape Spain’s Suppressed Reality
These titles may not sound appealing, but considering the time and place they were conceived, it can give the viewer slices of what the golden years of Spanish horror were like; real horror in cinematographic terms. A lack of budget, lack of an established cultural environment, the industry, the audience and critic’s prejudices, and obstacles […]