It’s a given that even good directors will make at least one bad film throughout their career. Quentin Tarantino famously stated that he’ll like to retire after his 10th film because he’d like to maintain some consistency in his filmography, and he has a point – there are some directors who’ve never made a bad […]
Month: July 2017
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The 15 Best Satire Movies of The 21st Century (So Far)
The place of satire in cinema is a most welcome one, as film has often been a medium through which society and politics is represented and archived while simultaneously mocked and reshaped. While satire has been a part of cinema since its inception, from The Great Dictator to Dr Strangelove, it has by no means […]
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10 Great Movies of The Past 5 Years You May Have Missed
One of the really annoying things about cinema today is that too many Hollywood blockbusters are overexposed in the media, and small, indie movies from other countries of the world get almost no credit at all. The major mission of this list is to bring such gems to the limelight and introduce movie buffs the […]
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10 Underappreciated Recent Thrillers Worth Your Time
The trouble with living in a world where everything is about now is that nothing gets a second chance. If one huge-scale action movie disappoints the audience, everyone shrugs and prepares for the next one the following week. There is, as we all know, no “best” of anything and time is the only critic whose […]
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All 10 Noah Baumbach Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Noah Baumbach is an American filmmaker born on September 3rd, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English from Vassar College in 1991, Baumbach’s debut film was 1995’s “Kicking and Screaming”, launching his career and pointing many of the aspects and traces he would never abandon in his films from that […]
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7 Reasons Why “Heat” is a Modern Masterpiece of American Cinema
There is no Academy Award, or any other type of cinematic award outside some of the more fanciful film festivals, given for a certain type of style. This is too bad, for if this were ever to take place, the first in line in terms of deserving it would be director Michael Mann. Chicago born […]