For horror, superhero, and comedy fans, Sam Raimi is one of the most widely enjoyed filmmakers of the past 30 years. He’s created two popular original characters and franchises (Darkman and Evil Dead) and helmed the first Spider-Man trilogy in the 2000s. Besides this, Raimi has directed 15 full-length features, many of them great successes […]
Month: May 2017
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The 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival dictates what movies we talk about for the following year, and indeed, for many years in the future. It was here that the Romanian New Wave first came into public eye, here that directors like Michael Haneke or Lars von Trier premiered their biggest projects and here that we found the […]
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10 Movies With The Most Number of Extras
Before CG, 2D or 3D simulation to create massive crowds, Hollywood relied on extras—real people who laboriously had to be controlled, clothed, fed and paid (nowadays, from $50-$100 per 8 hours on the set, depending on the budget, of course). These are those that assemble the huge armies in great land battles. Or the crowd […]
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The 15 Best American Gangster Movies of The 1970s
Long story short, gangster films became quite popular during the 1930s. Having started out here and there at the end of the roaring 20s – for instance, Josef Von Sternberg’s “Underworld” (1927) – gangster films reached a full-scale production during the 1930s mainly because of The Great Depression. For one, people needed entertainment that provided […]
Pulling Focus: Barton Fink (1991)
“A movie I really love is Barton Fink… I feel like there’s so much in there, you could watch it again and again.” – Charlie Kaufman Lost for words For a fact one of the Coen brothers’ most sideways mash-ups, Barton Fink synthesizes entertainment industry satire, film noir, the surreal, Künstlerroman designs, and the […]
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All 5 Bong Joon-ho Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Born in 1969, Bong Joon-ho was raised in an artistic family, since his father was a designer and his grandfather a noted author. This fact was a major factor in his decision to become a filmmaker, a goal he’d focused on since middle school. He majored in sociology at Yonsei University in the late 1980s […]