For the last eighty years, Walt Disney Studios has been the dominant force in animated musicals. Since 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney has churned out cartoons about singing flowers, singing rats, singing fish, singing frogs, and all sorts of other lovable vermin who can’t stop themselves from bursting into song. Sure, there […]
Month: April 2016
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The 10 Best Movie Performances by Actors Playing Identical Twins
There’s something about twins… Having someone in the world that looks exactly like you, and with whom you probably spend most of your childhood and, exceptional circumstances aside, your later life too, is something that has provoked filmmakers’ minds all over the world. And telling a story about twins is not only a technological and […]
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10 Great Movies Overshadowed by Similar and Bigger Movies Released in The Same Year
Ah, the movie business – where no idea is new and similar plots are practically everywhere. Yes, The Incredibles is Watchmen for kids, George Lucas has confirmed that Star Wars was heavily influenced from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. The Lion King can easily be seen as the animal version of Hamlet and there are […]
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The 10 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies Before 1950
If one thing can be said of the Hollywood studio system, it’s that you had a lot of chances to make a good movie. John Ford made well over 50 movies before he made Stagecoach, a game changing masterpiece, usually making two or three movies a year. It also doesn’t hurt that filmmakers like Ford, […]
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The 15 Best Filmmakers with Multiple Talents
Cinema can be considered an orchestrated consequence of several arts. Since its birth, the audiovisual medium has imbibed and borrowed from arts that infiltrate by virtue of seniority and experimentation. Over the course of its evolution from amusing spectacles to cultural statements, cinema has witnessed directors who bear profound sensitivity, encompassing its miscellaneous parentage. This […]
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10 Actors Who Should Reteam With Quentin Tarantino
Either you love Quentin Tarantino or you hate him. The director’s work is recognizable for his trademarks—or his routines, depending on your point of view—including: long, powerful dialogues and/or speeches; frequent use of violence and dark humour; and, of course, larger-than-life characters. But when it comes to these characters, success ultimately hinges on casting. After […]