Whether driven by suspicions about Communism or the paranoia over HIV, there is an all too familiar sub-genre of film that has been floating around like space-flowers for over half a decade. The ‘body-snatcher’ film taps into our primal fear that the people around us are not who they seem to be; into the feeling […]
Month: March 2017
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10 Movie Directors We Wish Could Be More Prolific
Last summer, Taste of Cinema published a list titled 10 Directors Who Should Stop Making Movies. It featured such offenders as Tyler Perry, Dennis Dugan, Paul W. S. Anderson and, of course, Michael Bay – the cinephile’s bête noir. In the past 20 years, these filmmakers have inflicted dozens of films on us and have […]
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7 Well Written Movie Scenes That Don’t Use Any Dialogue
Dialogue should do at least one of two things, advance plot and establish characters. A screenwriter uses more than conversations between characters to do that. Dialogue gets more recognition than any other element of a script because it is the writing that translates to the screen, but a script is more than the characters’ words. […]
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15 Movie Sequels So Bad They Killed Their Franchises
Anyone who is a fan of film and television has surely heard the term “jump the shark,” named after how in an episode of the sitcom “Happy Days” when Fonzie jet skied over a shark on water skis. This phenomenon is when a television or film series becomes so silly that it has killed all […]
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The 10 Biggest Movie Box Office Flops of All Time
It is always a pity when after putting effort into something, it doesn’t turn out as successful as you thought it would be. But after running around, raising millions of dollars, spending your precious time to get together, writing and rewriting a story that appeals to investors and producers, forming a crew and cast and […]
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8 Famous Movies That Are Philosophically Misunderstood
As a filmmaker, you aren’t solely responsible for other people’s interpretations of your work. There are arguments to be made that sometimes their messages have become muddled through rather contradictory portrayals – a story of true love motivated by youthful naivety, or the horrors of war undercut by badass action scenes. But sometimes, the viewer […]