If it wasn’t for the “B Movie” phenomena, many A-List actors might have not gained much attention from high caliber directors and producers. These particular films usually have a low budget, but possess a certain amount of originality because of various short comings, like plot plausibility, poor acting and cheap effects. Regardless, some develop cult […]
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15 Intelligent Sci-Fi Movies That Challenge You To Think
For a long time now, science fiction has been synonymous with Michael Bay-esque explosions, alien invasions and super-powered humans with futuristic gadgets. For most of these films, the sci-fi aspect only exists to make the action sequences cooler, and cooler scenes mean more profits. But there are movies that embrace the science in science fiction […]
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The 10 Best Performances in Richard Linklater Films
It’s been twenty-five years since Austin-based writer and director Richard Linklater burst onto the indie scene with the shoestring-budgeted, free flowing ‘Slacker’. Since then, he was worked in a variety of genres and different formats. More than anything, he is a very humanist, philosophical storyteller and his stories often focus on both the profound and […]
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10 Great Movies That Use Color to Signify a Change in Narrative or Emotion
Colour, in film, has gone on quite a journey: from the trivial and fanciful use of colour in early cinema, to the tonal and emotional, then the realistic and over-sober, and back to its comfortable middle-ground of visceral engagement. The first uses of colour came in the form of film tinting, whereby a part of […]
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10 Non-Beatles Movies Featuring a Beatle
The Fab Four are the most famous band in pop history, yet they also have a large presence in the history of film. From their classic 1964 flick A Hard Day’s Night through the zany pop art of 1965’s Help! and onto the whimsical psychedelia of both Magical Mystery Tour (1967) and the animated Yellow […]
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20 Great Underground Horror Movies You Might Not Have Seen
Underground horror is the epitome of independent cinema. Shot on shoestring budgets, mostly self-distributed, and reliant on word-of-mouth for promotion, these films are as DIY as you can get. With the constraints that come with operating on a limited budget, it’s easy to dismiss these films as amateur and incompetent, but that couldn’t be further […]