Films in general are essentially a grandiose sum of all its parts, a combination of beats upon beats that result in a short experience that transports audiences deep into world of the filmmaker. When a filmmaker puts his heart and soul into every scene of a film, the final product would undeniably be something fantastic. […]
Month: September 2017
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The 10 Most Influential Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Fiction is one of the most powerful inventions in human history. Humanity’s ability to create out of whole cloth entire separate realities and worlds that function either on the rules of our own reality or one constructed on separate complex rules has introduced the world to concepts that would otherwise never have existed. This has […]
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10 Famous Movie Adaptations Hated By The Authors
Many authors dream of that moment when Hollywood comes calling. But for a multitude of reasons, an author’s work cannot always be adapted to the letter. The creative licence used when it comes to adaptations is often praised by those responsible for the source material. However, there are times when this is not the case, […]
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All 17 Oscar Best Cinematography Winners of the 21st Century Ranked from Worst to Best
Cinematography is the aspect of filmmaking most unique to the medium. The camera has a relation to the spectator as well as what is being filmed; it’s the bare bones of the genuine language of cinema. The Academy Awards have honored films of beauty that deserved a golden statue in our millennia, while, as with […]
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The 10 Best Movie Trilogies of The 21st Century
Film trilogies are something very recurrent in cinema history. Being three movies that follow the same story and making it easier to tell a longer narrative, or even movies from a specific director that revolves around the same theme or even the same place, in the years since the 21st century began, some very, very […]
Entanglement – VIFF 2017 Review
Were it not for a charismatic turn from Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley, The Final Girls) and some striking visuals (many cribbed from the Michel Gondry playbook, mind you), there’d be almost nothing to recommend about Jason James’ latest foray into familiar romcom territory, the thorny, over-written, and painfully prosaic new film, Entanglement. Following up 2013’s […]