Coming of age is a necessary and fascinating part of life. It’s awkward, messy, and almost never goes the way we planned. First loves, new friends, and the kick start to life ambitions – this time in a person’s life often shapes what they like and who they’ll become. Lucky for us – cinema has […]
Month: July 2016
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The 10 Best Anton Yelchin Movies You Need To Watch
Anton Yelchin was a gifted and charismatic young actor whose recent tragic death robbed the film community of a bright talent. Coming from a refugee family fleeing Soviet Russia, Yelchin was six months old when he moved to California. Starting his career at just nine for the indie flick A Man is Mostly Water before […]
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The 10 Most Distinct Traits of Wong Kar-wai’s Cinema
Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director ever to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wong moved far away from the traditional Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films that focused on action, and he explored more substantial themes, including […]
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The 25 Best Films Set in Paris
Saying Paris means saying cinema: even the first film the Lumière brothers ever made, La Sortie dell’Usine Lumière à Lyon (1895), was shown in Paris, at the Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines, even if it had been shot in Lyon. Being there at its birth, the City of Lights is then inextricably connected […]
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The 10 Best Action Scenes in James Bond Movies
The EON-produced James Bond series is the third highest grossing film franchise of all time, and the highest not to feature superheroes or depressive child wizards. Six actors have led 24 screen adventures over half a century, while Bond’s outrageous, heroic escapades have left an international trail of property damage, reconsidered physics and awestruck bystanders. […]
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20 Movies With The Best Cinematic Composition
One of the most relevant battles in contemporary filmmaking is between the looks and the brains of the film. Many critics and filmgoers always tend to pick a side, between the poetry that is conversation, and the floating ambience that imagery and the art that can be created when enveloping a story. If this exercise […]