The sad and sudden news that versatile character actor Bill Paxton passed recently, due to heart surgery complications, is a devastating announcement for cinema. He was a rare beast, a man who would always give his all to a project, regardless of the quality of said film – an approach that helped elevate any job […]
Month: March 2017
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10 Movies You Should See If You Liked The Before Trilogy
Before the release of his Oscar-nominated 2014 film “Boyhood”, the “Before” trilogy was undoubtedly the magnum opus of director Richard Linklater, and at this point, we can all agree that both “Boyhood” and the aforementioned trilogy are his masterpieces. The three movies starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, which follow three different moments of Celine […]
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10 Totally Awesome 2000s Horror Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
For the first decade of the new millennium, mainstream horror cinema was largely stagnant. After Michael Bay’s 2003 reimagining of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre proved a huge success, the era of horror remakes officially commenced and major studios went hog-wild resurrecting beloved classics one after another. In the 80’s horror rip-offs were a dime a […]
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7 Reasons Why “Pulp Fiction” was the Seminal Movie of the Indie Revolution
There always seems to be the chosen few or, really, THE ONE in any movement of film history. With Italy’s Neo-Realist movement it was Bicycle Thieves. New Hollywood will always be identified with the film that started it all, Bonnie and Clyde or, perhaps, The Godfather. Out of the Past seems a perfect illustration of […]
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7 Reasons Why “Battle Royale” is a Cult Masterpiece
Kinji Fukasaku’s last film was a production worthy of his lifetime achievements in the field, since “Battle Royale” caused much controversy; it was banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries, but at the same time, it also influenced a great number of movies and many filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino and “The Hunger […]
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7 Potentially Amazing Sci-Fi Movies To Watch In 2017
Imagine meeting a time traveler from the far future. This individual is not on some poignant mission, he’s not on his way to save John Connor from some malicious Terminator. He’s not fighting for his existence by forcing his mother to fall for his father. He’s simply on vacation to the world of the 21st […]