Imitation, it is oft said, is the sincerest form of flattery. And while the world of film is littered with scores of unabashed ripoffs that fail to recapture any of the magic of the films they shamelessly copied (just take a look at the deluge of awful Alien, Jaws and Gremlins clones out there) every […]
Month: March 2017
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10 Great Movies Scored by Rock Bands and Musicians
Incidental music has always been a controversial matter: how important is it? Is it supposed to be noticed? How essential is it to the core of the film? As a fact, film scoring is one of the most revealing aspects of a filmmaker’s vision, so that the musical choices of a director can set new […]
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The 25 Best Movie Directors of the 21st Century
The 21st century has provided some of the greatest films in cinema history created by master directors around the world. The following is a listing of directors that have made some of the most memorable and acclaimed films of the century thus far. 25. Chan-wook Park 21st Century notable films include: Sympathy for Mr. […]
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10 Totally Awesome 2000s Sci-fi Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
The dawn of the millennium ushered in a bumper crop of sci-fi films: with the overwhelming success of The Matrix, the genre was revived in popular culture with a new sense of purpose: to create reality-bending stories for audiences now primed to receive them. The nascent rise of the internet in the 1990s had since […]
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20 Weird Movies from the Last Decade No One Talks About
A follow-up of to the “Trilogy of Cinematic Weirdness” (published last year), this list focuses on the movies shot during the period 2007-2017, as the title clearly suggests. It excludes the features from the previous articles, but includes a couple of short films which, simply put, has to be seen to be believed, and even […]
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The 20 Best Movie Gunfights of All Time
The great Jean-Luc Godard once said, “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”. While the French auteur is known for many achievements in cinema, action films is probably not at the top of the list. However, Godard’s quote has become quite synonymous with cinema as it perfectly illustrates how […]