2015 was an impressive year for Chinese-language cinema, both artistically and commercially, although some controversy could not be missed. “Monster Hunt”, a 3D fantasy adventure, is currently the highest grossing film in China, the second biggest market in the world after the American market. However, the film faced enormous problems before it was completed, since […]
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The 10 Best Movies Featuring Evil Children
Children are supposed to be our future, right? As parents, everything we do once we have children is to prepare them for their own life and try and teach them everything we wished we knew at their age. Most parents want their children to have a better life than they had. This is only natural. […]
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10 Lesser-Known Samurai Movies Worth Your Time
Those strong, still cameras. The still, silent samurai in the midground; the glaring katana in the fore; the windblown reeds in the back. Cut to his opponent, matching the stoic attitude, in the few tense seconds before a flare of slashes decides the victor. There are hundreds, thousands of these moments, each as thrilling as […]
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The 10 Best Viggo Mortensen Movie Performances
Born in the 1950s to an American mother and Danish father, Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. has since become one of the most prolific, diverse, and understated actors of recent times. He is not only an accomplished actor, but a successful musician, poet, businessman, photographer, horse rider, and painter, as well as a fluent speaker of […]
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10 Famous Movies That Are Far More Philosophical Than You Thought
It’s no news that cinema can be a powerful bearer of philosophical ideas. The Matrix has shown us that the world as we know it may not exist, Blade Runner posed questions about artificial intelligence and My Diner with Andre takes us through the whole of western philosophy. Discussing film and philosophy is great, but […]
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The 10 Best Spanish Films of the 21st Century
These days, Spanish cinema has become a mature-content and technical configuration kind of cinema worthy of being exposed in any European country or the US. In relation to the esteem other nations such as France or Italy have for Pedro Almodóvar or classic Spanish realisateurs like Luis Buñuel, Luis G. Berlanga or Carlos Saura, it […]