Park Chan-wook’s return to S. Korea from Hollywood, where he directed “Stoker”, also signaled his return to masterpieces, with “The Handmaiden” reaching the standards of his best films, like “Oldboy”. His passage from Hollywood did not have the same success his previous works had; however, Park seems to have implemented the aesthetics usually associated with […]
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Pulling Focus: Morvern Callar (2002)
With Lynne Ramsay’s miraculous Morvern Callar we are continually someplace else. In the cinema, outside of the cinema, in and out of time, passionately and profoundly in the reality of experience and most certainly in tactile transcendency. A film of startling beauty and immense intellect, Morvern Callar may, for some viewers, bypass any immediate emotional […]
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The 15 Most Underrated Horror Movie Sequels
There’s a common conception that most horror sequels suck, with rare exceptions like “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), “Dawn of the Dead” (1978), and “Aliens” (1986). Still, it’s not far from the truth – most are made as soulless cash grabs – but that’s no reason we can’t find some quality amongst the quantity. Several rare […]
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The 10 Most Subversive Sci-fi Movies of the 1980s
Contemporary sci-fi community owes a great deal to the uncontained boom of science fiction that marked the Reagan decade, as many of the concepts explored today stem from the lush and flamboyant aesthetics of the 80’s sci-fi. Some recent movies and series, like the Duffer brothers’ universally acclaimed Stranger Things, manage to reconstruct the vibrancy […]
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Every X-Men Movie Ranked Worst to Best
The “X-Men” franchise is the definitive modern superhero series and it’s only getting stronger. It not only successfully kickstarted this sub-genre craze that’s been thriving in cinemas for more than a decade, but it was also Marvel’s first proper win at the multiplexes. On the flip side, it also shares one of the most bewildering continuities […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movies On The IMDB Top 250
For any film lover, IMDB.com is an invaluable source for movie news and information. The highest viewed movie website in the world by a long shot, it draws from fans ratings in order to give every film in its database a score out of ten. The top 250 ranked films — as long as they […]