Recently, I’ve written lists of the best actors and actresses under 50 working right now. Controversial and naturally limited as they proved to be, they still reflected my most sincere opinion and best effort at the time. While thinking about those lists, I’ve realized that a lot of these actors have made great underappreciated films. […]
Year: 2016
- Features
- ...
The 10 Most Scientifically Inaccurate Movies of All Time
If scientific correctness was a priority in cinema, watching movies would be as entertaining as sitting through a physics class. In fact, the possibility of experiencing a reality completely different from our own is one of the things that makes the seventh art so appealing. A well-conceived plot line can make absurd ideas sound very […]
- Features
- ...
The 15 Best Movies Written or Directed by David Mamet
“I think it’s very likely I would have been a criminal,” David Mamet said, when asked who he might have been if he hadn’t discovered theater. “It seems to be another profession that subsumes outsiders… accepts people with a not very well-formed ego and rewards the ability to improvise.” Thus, it should come to no […]
Pulling Focus: Carrie (1976)
“Carrie effortlessly straddles, and frequently blurs, the line between exploitation trash and serious-minded cinema” – Paul O’Callaghan, BFI They’re all gonna laugh at you! Following after the minor successes of Sisters (1973), Phantom of the Paradise (1974)––which would eventually have a substantial cult following––and Obsession (1976), Carrie would prove, once and for all, that […]
- Features
- ...
15 Great American Movies from the 1970s You Might Not Have Seen
The ‘70s were a tumultuous time for America, to say the least. Coming out of the idealism and liberty of the counter-culture movement that began in the mid-to-late ‘60s, which was quickly revealed to be a mess of new and old traditions. Although the 70’s is often looked back on with some negativity, it produced […]
- Features
- ...
8 Reasons Why “Mulholland Drive” Is A Masterpiece of American Cinema
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch’s 2001, puzzling neo noir mystery-drama recently topped BBC Culture’s poll of the 21st Century’s 100 Greatest Films. It was a resounding triumph for the film because the poll asked 177 film critics from 36 countries to name their favourite films of the last 16 years. Despite beating the likes of Paul […]