“The blind one. She’s the one that can see.” –Laura Baxter (played by Julie Christie) Death and the compass An autumn garden in the English countryside, bucolic yet somehow unquiet, two children, Christine and Johnny Baxter (Sharon Williams and Nicholas Slater), gambol and play, unconsciously on the precipice of tragedy. Their parents, John and […]
Month: April 2016
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The 20 Best Asian Movies Remade in Hollywood
Hollywood has been remaking masterpieces of Asian cinema since the 60s, picking the most commercially successful and the most adaptable productions to bring to both American and worldwide audiences. Some were equal masterpieces, some were mediocre, and there were even disappointing ones. However, it is always interesting to trace the originals, not just because they […]
Pulling Focus: My Dinner With Andre (1981)
“We’re just going around all day like unconscious machines, and meanwhile there’s all this rage and worry and uneasiness just building up and building up inside us.” – Wallace Shawn, My Dinner With André All you can eat A few summers ago, back in 2009, I hand picked some of my favourite films for […]
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The 15 Best Movies Set In The American South
Thanks in part to its troubled past, the American South has seen a blossom of artistic endeavors. The culture of the region is steeped heavily in the appreciation for oral tradition, so it is no wonder that so many Southerners have made careers out of the art of storytelling. For this reason, many brilliant films […]
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The 10 Best Michael Keaton Movie Performances
Few have made the comeback Michael Keaton has done. The perennial star of 1989 returned with a bang, both saluting his iconic superhero and questioning the fame around it. ´Birdman´ proved that Keaton was more than just an eighties/nineties celebrity clutching for his breath (the same of which cannot be applied to his peers Pierce […]
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25 Great Cult Sci-fi Movies You May Have Missed
Science fiction stories usually involve fantastical elements that focus on space travel, alien life forms, or time travel and are set in the future or some type of dystopian or apocalyptic society. They also tend to have social and political commentary that is relative to the time that the film was made and also try […]