Edward Thomas “Tom” Hardy (born 15 September, 1977) is the only child of Cambridge-educated writer Edward “Chips” Hardy and artist mother Anne, and grew up in East Sheen, London. His formative years were anything but boring. He was expelled from Reeds public school (for stealing), arrested for joyriding in a stolen Mercedes while in possession […]
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The 10 Best British Noir Films You Should Watch
Everyone is familiar with film noir, the American genre that flowered during the Second World War, and which produced a series of feverish dramas, equal parts cynical and romantic, where private eyes got lost in the labyrinths of organised crime or an innocent Joe was seduced by a femme fatale. Whatever the story, the narrative […]
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10 Film Adaptations That Rival Their Source Material
Adaptations have been popular in cinema, ever since Georges Méliès’s version of Cinderella came out in 1899. It’s only natural given the literary nature of films that adaptations occur. These are the films that rival their source material in terms of quality by utilizing the art of filmmaking to the narrative’s benefit, creating either an […]
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The 20 Most Quotable Comedy Movies of All Time
Why don’t great comedies get the same respect as great dramas, sci-fi, action, etc.? One could argue making a great comedy is just as difficult, maybe even more so, than other genres as not only requires a great script, but also actors with impeccable comic timing and delivery which is very difficult. You could also […]
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The 10 Best Kubrickian Films Not By Stanley Kubrick
From early work with Paths of Glory to Lolita, to his coffee-black comedy Doctor Strangelove, the droog dystopia A Clockwork Orange, and later with The Shining and the unblinking stare into the Vietnam War with Full Metal Jacket, and in 1999, his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick is one of the most well-known […]
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The 10 Best Movies with Unusual Aspect Ratios
The term “aspect ratio” describes the mathematical relation between the horizontal side of the screen image and the vertical one; for example, the ratio used for television is 16:9, which means that the proportion between width and height will always be 1.78 to 1 (if your tv screen is 16 inches long, its height will be […]