Takeshi Kitano is one of Japan’s most celebrated award winning film-makers. Across Europe his work is highly regarded, with his highlight being the recipient of the Golden Lion award for Hana-Bi at the Venice International Film Festival. To most of the casual film fans in the western world his filmography is still relatively unknown, although […]
Month: May 2017
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Every Video Nasty Movie Ranked From Worst To Best (Part III)
The novelty of video meant that distributors were not legally obliged to submit their material for classification, so for the first time British viewers were able to watch movies about cannibals, sadistic Nazis and psychotic killers armed with power tools. The cover art for these videos would’ve done an American exploitation outfit proud: from Cannibal […]
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10 Totally Bizarre 1980s Movies You May Have Missed
How do weird films get produced in the first place? Movies cost millions of dollars to make, and producers and filmmakers must find some commercial viability of the work or else they wouldn’t have gotten past the script stage. Perhaps they think that there will be enough of an audience for their film that they’ll […]
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All 11 Hirokazu Koreeda Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Hirokazu Koreeda was born in Tokyo. His original aim was to find a career as a novelist, so he studied literature at Waseda University, but after graduation, he changed his mind, turning to film. He began his career as assistant director for TV Man Union, an independent Japanese television company, after which he cut his […]
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The 10 Worst Video Game Movies of All Time
The lines between movies and videos games have become a lot less blurred in recent times, with modern video games becoming much more narratively driven than ever before. Further to this, many developers have even created video games based on famous movies, with some telling a new unique story from within the same universe and […]
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8 Movies Aspiring Screenwriters Should Watch When Studying Character Development
Creating something as complex as a conscious being is the most vital task in writing a script. Characters are the human representation in an art that comments on humanity. Every last character has a desire, and that desire drives every aspect of the story. Through their desire, a character changes from the start to the […]