Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s influential fantasy saga was one the most ambitious film projects ever made. Regarded as one of the most unfilmable book series ever written (including an alleged attempt by The Beatles with Stanley Kubrick), it took about eight years of continuous work for Jackson and his team to prove everyone […]
Month: May 2017
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7 Reasons Why “L.A. Confidential” is a Modern Masterpiece of American Cinema
In recent years, those who have an avid interest in vintage Hollywood films are inevitably drawn to two movements or periods in the history of American pictures. One is now tagged the “pre-code” era, the roughly five years of relaxed censorship at the dawn of sound in the very late 1920s and early 1930s. The […]
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20 Amazing Slow-Paced Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
Some of the best, and most obvious, advice to give anyone trying to get into cinema is to just be patient, and pay attention at all times. It is axiomatic for sure, but this advice is even more prevalent when considering slow, meandering cinema. It can be tempting to wander off and lose focus, but […]
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10 Totally Bizarre 1990s Movies You May Have Missed
Who doesn’t enjoy a good weird movie every now and then? When properly done, a strange film can excite the viewer who has grown accustomed to the standard mainstream fare to re-engage their passion for the medium or else encourage neophytes into delving deeper down the rabbit hole of more bizarre fare. The 90s was […]
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The 20 Best Movies of The 2010s That Feature Female Leads
Last year ended with a huge sigh of relief as people experienced the joy of entering a new year and forgetting, or at least moving on from all the tragic events 2016 brought to the world. But even that cloud, as dark and grey as it was, had its silver lining – more specifically, one […]
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15 One-Time Director-Actor Collaborations We’d Like to See More of
Looking at some of the best pairs of frequently collaborating actors and directors, i.e. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski or Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina, there’s a clear chemistry that extents from the front to the back of the camera. The relationships we […]