People are strange. Since children we are taught that murder is wrong. But when done for the right cause it is justified. What is the capital punishment in its core? In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. So it is murder. Some filmmakers call it the […]
Month: January 2016
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15 Essential Jean-Luc Godard Films You Need To Watch
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most well-known figures of La nouvelle vague, or the French New Wave. Filmmaker, screenwriter and critic, he started as a writer for the influential Cahiers du Cinema, like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivettes, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut, who are also influential directors of the movement. Andre Bazin, the theorist […]
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The 14 Most Annoying Supporting Characters in Movies
So there you are, watching and enjoying your movie, and a supporting character shows up that makes you sit up and think: “well dang – that was pretty annoying. Then it happens again. And again. With the same character. Pretty soon all you’re thinking about the movie is how annoying that man/woman/Rastafarian-Gungan is, and not […]
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10 Great Movies Featuring Minimalist Storytelling
Minimalism has been around since the 1960s. Every form of art has, since then, explored the concepts of minimalism. The main idea of the minimalist art is to reduce the concept being conveyed to its core, to strip it of all the useless parts, and to end up with the idea in its purest form. […]
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The 10 Best Daniel Craig Movie Performances
Daniel Craig was one of two actors, after Timothy Dalton, whose acting credibility was as much a deciding factor in his casting, as well as his looks and public persona. But where Dalton´s films disappeared from U.S. cinemas almost as quickly as they arrived into them, Craig brought Bond four of the most successful films […]
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15 Great Tragedies Disguised as Horror Movies
“Beware the ides of March.” -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (2.3:103) What exactly makes a tragedy tragic? Is it that is was inevitable or that it was avoidable? Is it the result of divine will or the result of human error? Many see tragedy as a dead art form, one which belongs to the Ancient Greeks […]