Celebrities have always been a recurring theme in the history of art. Many books, songs and movies – fictional or not – are based on celebrities. We can sum it up just by saying that fame is something interesting to be explored in art – and it is definitely explored a lot. So, in this […]
Year: 2017
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10 Box Office Hits That Most People Hate
In mid-September this year, the website “Medium” published a study by Yves Bergquist, the director of the Data and Analytics Project at the University of Southern California’s Entertainment Technology Center. The research was about the relationship between a movie’s critical reception and box office gains, and analyzed data from just the 21st century. The results […]
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10 Reasons Why Paul Thomas Anderson Is The Greatest Filmmaker Of Our Generation
Frogs falling out of the black night sky. An oil well owned by a man possessed by greed blowing up. A drug-infused investigative endeavour. Two men fighting in a garden, rolling around on the grass – in love or repulsion? Dissecting the emotion that drives the characters or the storyteller in a Paul Thomas Anderson […]
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10 Movie Directors Who Make The Most Disturbing Films
From explicit gore to the sexually perverse, cinema has always dabbled in the provocative and the disturbed. William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, once said, “if I wasn’t a director, I might have become a serial killer”. His words reveal so much about the craft and the kind of minds that […]
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8 Movies That Prove Robert Pattinson Is A Good Actor
The stars of the Twilight movies have an unfortunate burden to carry. After starring in one of the most reviled series in recent memory, the actors and actresses have had to work extra hard to prove they are not actually terrible performers. While it’s true that none of the Twilight cast members delivered solid performances […]
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Top 25 Movies That Won Best Actor at Cannes
As the most prestigious film festival of the year, it comes as no surprise that the best of the best come to the French south seaside to show the finest of what they have. Here the Hollywood elite clashes with the Asian and European giants, and the actors from independent fields or countries with a […]