The Razzies are kind of an annoying institution. As a sort of anti-Oscars, they are meant to highlight the worst movies of the year. But much like how the Oscars usually don’t highlight the best movies of any given year, the Razzies almost generally never pick the worst movies of any given year. They pick […]
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10 Great Cult Movies Most People Didn’t See
Cult films regularly pride themselves with being eccentric, controversial, obscure, offbeat, and often unmarketably strange. Cult films also, unfortunately for fans waiting in the wings, often struggle to get noticed at all, let alone find an appreciative audience, or any kind of financial success. The short list that follows consists of films you may have […]
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10 Times Directors Were Total Jerks To Their Actors
On set, a director is the person who not only takes creative control of the project but is also in charge of the cast and crew – what the director says, goes. Different directors have different methods of working and like in any line of work; some directors could be described as pretty difficult bosses […]
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The 15 Best Movie Opening Scenes of The 21st Century
It’s been said that closing a film is the hardest part of filmmaking. Something I’ve never quite agreed with. Yes, finding the perfect ending to a perfect film may be challenging, but if what came before is great, then the perfect ending is always within reach. But opening a film is something else entirely. Apart […]
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The 10 Best Movies About The Struggle Between Body and Soul
Film is the ideal arena to work out the conflict between the body and the soul. In many ways cinema, as an art form, boils down this primal struggle. The medium of film depends on action and movement; otherwise why not just write it instead? But there has to be the internal struggle as well, […]
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10 Famous Movies Where The Ending Is Much Bleaker Than You Realized
Once a film concludes, you can have one of two reactions. You can either understand that a certain picture has been wrapped up nicely, and you try to revisit the entire trip from start to finish. You can also be left with an open ended finale, which invites you to split the film up in […]