Directors can sometimes be negatively stereotyped as control-freaks and imperious lunatics. While a great deal of people who make this generalization in those terms tend not to know what they are talking about, they are only wrong in their claim that being demanding and wanting things to go a precise way is inherently bad in […]
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The 30 Best Horror Movies of All Time
Halloween is almost upon us, so what better time to round-up a list of the most scariest films of all time? Before diving into these suspense-filled nightmares carefully wed to celluloid let’s take care of a little house cleaning to clarify how such daunting a task of presenting only 30 films under the banner of […]
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10 Famous Movies Completely Different to Their Source Material
In this post-modernist age, it can be argued that there is no such thing as an original film anymore. Everything is stolen, borrowed, remade, re-imagined and re-hashed. Movie ideas now come from books, comics, video games, board games, magazines, newspapers, radio, plays, music, cartoons, TV shows, theme parks, short films and even other films. However, […]
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10 Great Movies That Push Cinematic Form to The Extreme
Emile Cioran used to say that “form” is the only thing that matters in artwork, because it is the way in which the art manifests itself to whoever is experiencing it. The realistic efforts of the majority of film productions, the desire to contain the length of a shot (or of an entire film), to […]
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The 10 Best Gory Movies of All Time
When you want to test the limits of the human mind regarding horror, macabre, and terror, you choose gory movies. The best of them will be on this list. But, be warned! The intrigue, scenes, and torture machines here are nothing you have ever seen before. 10. Planet Terror After “Once Upon a Time […]
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10 Reasons Why “Throne of Blood” Is the Best “Macbeth” Transposition
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, one of his great tragedies, has been most successfully transposed into film by Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, and Orson Welles; the newest adaptation came out in 2015, directed by Justin Kurzel. Here, the focus will be on Kurosawa’s version, which diverges from the original text at some points, although it follows the […]