A filmmaker’s career can have a whole host of ups and downs through the years. As directors with multi-decade trajectories can attest, there’s no success big enough to prevent you from stumbling and falling with the next film. Because of said unpredictability, it’s hard to tell if a filmmaker really achieved their full potential in […]
Month: July 2018
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The 10 Scariest Non-Horror Movies of All Time
There are so many phenomenal horror films that possess the power to terrify audiences. One only has to look at Jack Clayton’s 1961 gothic masterpiece, The Innocents, or Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to see that film can undoubtedly harness the capacity to scare perhaps more so than any other medium. These two examples […]
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The 20 Best Willem Dafoe Movie Performances
Willem Dafoe is one of the most versatile, recognizable, risk-taking and talented actors of cinema for more than three decades already. Even making a list consisting of only 20 performances is hard enough considering how diverse his filmography and roles are. He has done all genres and worked with countless auteurs from all over the […]
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The 20 Best Female Movie Performances of All Time
Cinema is full of great and compelling acting, and it is a substantial part of filmmaking. Wonderful actresses created characters with complex inner worlds full of contradictions and unique ways of behaving. Great actresses also find a way to match the tone that a specific film demands. Here is a personal list of the greatest […]
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15 Great Horror Movie Performances That Deserve Oscars
The Academy is known for having a genre bias against horror films. They sometimes nominated horror films but they had to be some kind of a cultural phenomenon or have a great box office to gain recognition and even then, some shocking snubs happened. Here are some of those great performances that people expected to […]
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The 10 Most British Films of All Time
When an image of a film that’s inherently embedded with the culture of the Royal Kingdom comes to mind, especially to the uninformed, a scene involving pompous aristocrats sipping tea and eating biscuits, speaking in exaggerated cockney accents is to be expected. However, the reality of a British film is far more complex than that […]