There are few other artists that have so successfully melded mediums and traversed boundaries than has David Bowie. Bowie is at once a brand and an inventor, and his involvement across the entirety of the cultural spectrum overshadows that of all of his contemporaries. Due to his inherent fascination with the visual arts, cinema was […]
Month: April 2016
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The 10 Best Filmmakers Who Still Shoot in Film
“Film vs. digital” has been the main debate in cinema industry for the last 15 years. Directors, producers, directors of photography and film fans have all taken part in the discussion, often with a great deal of participation: the sudden revolution of digital filmmaking is certainly the main paradigm shift of recent cinema history. Digital […]
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The 10 Worst Nicolas Cage Movies
When was the last time you saw a good movie starring Nicolas Cage? Not a so-bad-it’s-good movie, not a bad movie in which his crazy performance is enjoyable more as a meme-making machine then as anything else, but a genuinely good movie. It’s been a while, I’m guessing. The Oscar-winning Californian actor, a nephew of […]
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The 15 Best Movies about Failed Love
There are many things that define us as human beings, but the world we live in cannot really be understood without remembering the fact that we are deeply emotional beings. Our entire history has been constructed over two essential pillars: emotion and reason, expressed as art and science. There is a sort of dialectical contradiction […]
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The 10 Best Brendan Gleeson Movie Performances
If Colin Farrell is the heart throb, Liam Neeson the action star, Michael Fassbender the credible leading man, then Brendan Gleeson must be the greatest Irish character actor. He is to Ireland what John Goodman or Stanley Tucci are to America and Ben Wishaw is to England, a reliable face, a strong actor, a reliable […]
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The 10 Most Disappointing Films That Could Have Been Masterpieces
There is no greater sense of feeling shattered for filmgoers than highly anticipating seeing a movie that you think looks wonderful and the expectation of it being fulfilling viewing turning out to not be that great. Whether it was because the trailer was manipulative and edited well, or the film was based on great source […]