Let’s not kid ourselves, winning an Oscar is a life changing experience. As wonderfully portrayed in George Cukor’s A Star is Born, an individual actor can go from a virtual nobody to an overnight sensation within seconds. Yes, the Academy Awards seldom reflect actual quality, and yes the AMPAS (especially today) fail to represent the […]
Month: April 2016
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The 10 Best Quotes in a Kevin Smith Movie
If you are offended easily, this is not the list for you. Kevin Smith entered into the mainstream in 1994 along with some guy named Tarantino. His film, “Clerks”, was made on a shoestring budget of only $27,000 mostly by maxing out credit cards, selling his comic book collection and calling in lots of favors. […]
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10 Essential Films for an Introduction to Third Cinema
Of the major film movements that have been conceived so far, Third Cinema is currently one of the most generally overlooked. Its body of work isn’t as well known or as thoroughly dissected in film school classrooms as say French New Wave or German Expressionism, but historically and aesthetically speaking, it should be considered just […]
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25 Great Cult Films That Are Rip-offs of Popular Movies
Anytime that a movie gets released and is popular or a huge success, some smaller studio is going to try and take advantage of that success and release its own movie that is somewhat similar. It has happened throughout cinematic history but wasn’t more prevalent than during the drive-in, exploitation, and VHS rental craze. Low-budget […]
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10 Great Parody Movies That Outlived The Films They Spoofed
The art of the movie parody is one that’s mostly lost nowadays. The last one to hit theaters, Marlon Wayans’ Fifty Shades of Black, was not only crushed by the critics but also mostly ignores by the public, grossing only US$11 million in its whole run. Spoofs were once a staple in Hollywood, though, especially […]
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The 20 Most Controversial Movie Scenes of All Time
Part of the magic inherent to a classic film is that there is no set formula for producing one. Virtually every genre, convention, tone, and method of execution available to the filmmaker has produced at least one masterpiece. Thus, there are no rules totally set in stone for an artistic masterpiece in cinema. Instead, inspired […]