East Asian cinema has been enjoying its well earned and long yearned global recognition during the past couple of decades. Its diverse film traditions, once strictly typified by jidaigeki and wuxia movies, have finally succeeded to showcase that the directors who represent them can give birth to a wide variety of films that belong to […]
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The 15 Best European Films of 2015
2015 has been a really fruitful year for European Cinema. The following list, as a short overview of the best European films released in 2015, presents movies from 15 different countries from Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Romania, Hungary through Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland and France to Norway and Iceland. 1. The Lobster (Greece) […]
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10 Great Overlooked Performances by This Year’s Oscar Nominees
Despite the controversy surrounding the lack of non-white performers among this year’s Academy Awards nominees, the actors who got nominated form a very talented batch. So why not take a look at their earlier performances, the ones that flew under the Academy’s radar, like so many do every year? Only one of these movies is […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Capital Punishment
People are strange. Since children we are taught that murder is wrong. But when done for the right cause it is justified. What is the capital punishment in its core? In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. So it is murder. Some filmmakers call it the […]
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15 Essential Jean-Luc Godard Films You Need To Watch
Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most well-known figures of La nouvelle vague, or the French New Wave. Filmmaker, screenwriter and critic, he started as a writer for the influential Cahiers du Cinema, like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivettes, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut, who are also influential directors of the movement. Andre Bazin, the theorist […]
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The 14 Most Annoying Supporting Characters in Movies
So there you are, watching and enjoying your movie, and a supporting character shows up that makes you sit up and think: “well dang – that was pretty annoying. Then it happens again. And again. With the same character. Pretty soon all you’re thinking about the movie is how annoying that man/woman/Rastafarian-Gungan is, and not […]