If Hollywood loves anything more than money, it’s come back stories. Those last years, we experienced goosebumps when Mc Connaughey got a standing ovation at the Oscars, tears when Ben Affleck gave that impressive speech at the Oscars, we felt pretty impressed by RDJ box office numbers and we are still wondering: was that Mickey […]
Month: June 2016
Pulling Focus: L’Avventura (1960)
Capture the wind It’s there as Monica Vitti opens a slighted window shutter on a dilapidated shack on the Aeolian Islands in L’Avventura, his 1960 showpiece. It’s there again for Vitti in 1961’s intellectually stultifying La Notte just as it’s there for David Hemmings’ morally misplaced fashion photographer in Blowup (1966). It’s a frequently […]
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The 25 Best Performances in a 21st Century Biopic Film
Whilst cinematic biographies or ‘biopics’ have been present throughout the history of film, we have no doubt seen an influx in quantities over the past few decades as our curiosities and intrigue draw us to revisit fascinating periods of the past. Unquestionably darlings of the award season, biopics tackle a number of diverse subjects, most […]
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10 Cheesy 80s Horror Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Something rather wonderful happened in the 1980s regarding the horror genre, among the slew of slashers which boomed in the first four years of the decade, horrors also became self-referential and were laced with comedy. They quickly became known as a sub-genre within the horror community named as the cheesy movie. The rules were pretty […]
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10 Terrible Movies That Somehow Garnered a Sequel
Bad movies have been around for a while, and so has the tendency to make a sequel of everything, and when those two are combined, something awful is often born. Occasionally, a movie comes along, that is so horrendously bad that one has to question how it was made in the first place. Unfortunately, sometimes […]