So here is my list of the winners of the Best Director Oscar for the current millennium. Now before you start saying that it is completely wrong, can I just say that this is my opinion in an opinion piece. If it is different from yours then so it goes, it’s allowed to be! I’m […]
Year: 2017
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All 30 Alfred Hitchcock American Movies Ranked From Worst To Best (Part 1)
There is a pantheon in the world of film that is reserved only for the most truly memorable artists, the best of the best that includes the likes of John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick and yes, England’s own, Alfred Hitchcock, the self-proclaimed “Master of Suspense”. His output was quite prolific and of a consistently […]
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The 15 Best Movies of the 21st Century with Little or No Dialogue
From cinema’s infancy when the Lumière brothers screened the first short films in the late 1800s to the development of narrative films during the silent era and onwards to the massive multiplexes of today’s 21st Century, all of the iconic imagery associated with cinema is due to it being a dominantly visual medium. All of […]
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10 Great 1990s Movies You May Have Missed
This is the second part of a list published here before, with an emphasis on smaller independent productions that, because of smaller financial support, did not get the recognition they deserve. It also emphasizes lesser-known efforts by well-known directors. 10. Dave (1993, Ivan Reitman) Ivan Reitman is one of the overlooked comedy directors of […]
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The 10 Best Character Studies in 21st Century Movies
What would cinema look like without its characters? Well, aside from some standalone examples, there wouldn’t be a cinematic landscape at all. At its core, cinema is about characters and their actions. When basing on a well-researched script, the movie could be understand as a study of the protagonist’s psyche and his doings. Together with […]
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8 Famous Movies You Didn’t Realize Were Influenced by Anime
Japanese animation, commonly referred to as anime (the Japanese shorthand for animation), has had a tremendous impact on the international world. While cartoons were conceived around the start of the 20th century, anime took on a whole other form in the post-World War II period of Japan where it was developed as a method of […]