Sequels are everywhere in Hollywood. It’s a practical pastime of the trade that successful products get return trips, though this trek may not always prove as easy as it seems. Outlandish pitches, hack scripts, or even the genuinely clever follow-up have filtered through studio funnels, to the point where plans are eagerly announced to the […]
Month: May 2016
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15 Great Low-budget Movies with Unexpected Box Office Success
Is cinema as we know it dangerously close to extinction? This alarming question may seem over the top but it actually expresses a very real possibility; as the average movie costs and allowed budgets get outrageously larger, the relative profit studios make gets understandably lower. When a movie requires a budget of $140 million, as […]
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The 20 Eeriest Movies of All Time
The word “horror” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “painful and intense fear, dread…” Not a surprising summation of what the Horror Film genre tries to instill. In the past decade, theatrical horror films have been dominated by the company Blumhouse Productions. Their spotty releases have included “Paranormal Activity”, “Sinister”, as well as the “Insidious” and […]
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12 Great Cult Nun Movies That Are Worth Your Time
There are numerous examples of popular movies that feature a nun as one of the main characters; this includes The Sound of Music, Sister Act, The Singing Nun, and Doubt. This list is not about those films. It deals mostly with the exploitative subgenre that is known as nunsploitation, one that was prevalent in Europe […]
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The 10 Best Jonathan Demme Movies You Need To Watch
Jonathan Demme is right now on what’s probably the last years of his career. The legendary filmmaker was born in New York in February 22, 1944, and has been directing since he was thirty, when he debuted with Roger Corman-produced comedy Caged Heat, a movie that set him on an early run of wacky action/comedy […]
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The 30 Best Japanese Live Action Movies Based on Manga
Over the last several years, major Japanese studios have started to follow the tactics of their Hollywood equivalents by finally adapting their own comics, called manga, in the way they deserve. This tendency is not exactly new, since films based on manga/anime have been shot since the 70s. However, it is the first time that […]