Ranking Almodóvar’s films is something of a challenge. If you talk to several hardcore fans, you’ll quickly realize that what is considered a top 5 Almodóvar film for one person could be in the bottom five for someone else. His movies are so consistently well-done that it’s hard to pick out winners and losers. Almodóvar […]
Month: May 2017
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The 20 Greatest Movie Performances Honored At The Cannes Film Festival
At 70, the prestigious festival held annually at the beautiful French city is hardly in want of recognition. Films that play here often go on to become cherished masterpieces of world cinema, or awards players and even in a few instances, huge box-office successes. There is an allure to Cannes that even in an uninspiring […]
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9 Stanley Kubrick Movies That Use Bathrooms To Show His Characters’ True Natures
Whenever people leave their house and go out in public, they put on both an outfit and an act to keep up appearances. However, we are all flawed humans at the core, and there is no state of being completely natural and vulnerable, and at our most animalistic and rawest state, as when you are […]
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6 Reasons Why “What We Do in The Shadows” is One of the Best Comedies of This Century
The 2014 comedy “What We Do in the Shadows” developed a cult following upon its release. Directed by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, who also wrote and starred in the movie as Viago and Vladislav, respectively, this mockumentary became one of the most acclaimed comedies of this second decade of the 21st century. Uniting an […]
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The 15 Best Movies Set Mostly in a Cabin
The cabin the woods has been an established device in horror films for a considerable amount of time, from offering brief respite for the titular character in the original Frankenstein, to becoming a predominant setting during the American slasher boom in the 1980s. Since then, they have commanded a specific aura which has been instilled […]
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10 Totally Awesome 1990s Movies You May Have Missed
The 1990s were a heyday decade for independent film: with major studios finding financial success in the theaters with lower-budgeted films that were all but guaranteed to turn them a profit in the secondary market of home video rental and cable television broadcasts, indie films seemed like safer bets for investors to make than big-budget […]