Perhaps the most lauded superhero film ever, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight set what many consider to be an unreachable bar for all that followed. Indeed, many superhero films have tried to recreate its serious and brooding tone, to emulate its narrative and moral complexity, to outshine its captivating performances, in particular Heath Ledger’s now […]
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5 Reasons Why “Waking Life” Is The Most Profound Animated Movie of All Time
How do you explain the truth when it has been said for you? The best films, let alone animated ones, seem to take the words right out of your mouth. You feel as if a filmmaker has miraculously bridged their past present to your future present, all to make you feel more understood and a […]
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10 Movies With The Best Uses of Color of All Time
“Films use light and color to tell a story in a special narrative way,” says filmmaker Martin Scorsese, adding that such storytelling techniques “…deliver a strong emotional and intellectual impact on the viewer… [This realization] made a very strong impression on me and has affected how I try to use color in all of my […]
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The 10 Greatest New Wave Movements in Film History
What makes a cinematic movement a new wave? There are many loose definitions for the term “new wave”, but when applying it to national cinemas, two things are clear: a cinematic new wave is a movement that is distinctively different to the dominant mode of filmmaking of its home nation and its main goal, in […]
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The 10 Greatest Comic Book Supervillains of All Time
When it comes to the superhero movie thing, villains are the fuel that keeps them burning bright. The best superhero movies tend to have a great villain at the center. Sometimes a great villains can be stuck in a mediocre movie, or a great movie can have a mediocre villain. It tends to be rare […]
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The 10 Most Disturbing Movie Torture Scenes of All Time
The art of cinema has always been the most controversial of expressions. Authors, painters, sculptors, poets, and musicians all freely craft their spirited mosaics without fear of being censored. Still a relatively young art form, it is held as common belief that there are some things that should never be allotted to the screen. Sex, […]