In the years just after the Second World War, cinema seemed to flourish in response to the new world order so fitfully being born. (Studying film history, it often seems that the worst of times stimulates the best in film makers.) It appeared that every nation of Europe and Asia affected by that conflict gave […]
Month: January 2016
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The 10 Best Australian Films of The 21st Century
Following on from the male ensemble landscape films came to represent Australian cinema during the 1970s and 80s and the subsequent reaction to them in the 1990s, Australian cinema has gradually branched out during the last fifteen years. A far more diverse cinema that has adopted genre film, albeit often in a social realist format, […]
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20 Films Banned by the Legion of Decency That Are Worth Your Time
With the advent of commercially marketed films, in the early 1900s, there were public calls from religious groups for government regulation of the film industry. According to the ACLU’s webpage on film censorship, beginning in 1909 a National Board of Censorship representing various Protestant denominations was established and called for the regulation of commercial films. […]
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The 10 Best Jennifer Connelly Movie Performances
Jennifer Connelly was born in New York’s Catskill Mountains on December 12, 1970. Most people recognize her from “Requiem for a Dream”, but she took part in many films before that. She is an only child and she was raised by her father Gerard and her mother Eileen in a religious Catholic household. She began […]
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The 10 Best Documentaries of 2015
After a year full of so many documentaries about compelling topics, it is difficult to compile a list of the ten best documentaries of 2015, but there are certainly a few that stood out. While many of the films were biographical films of well-known personalities, there were also a few that succeeded in bringing forward […]
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The 15 Best Movies Featuring an Island Setting
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship.” “Gilligan’s Island” is probably not considered at TV classic, but it was part of the escapist 1960s charm which also brought us Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. It’s hard […]