Genre fans have been joyously experiencing a horror renaissance in recent years as mainstream cinema outlets and soaring box-office receipts reinforce that fright films have gone populist across the board. While this doesn’t always bode well for diehard fans who dig the transgressive elements of horror over trendy Stephen King adaptations, for instance (and certainly […]
Year: 2019
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10 Great Recent Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
Every year it seems like seven billion films are released. How cinephiles around the world somehow don’t spontaneously combust should be evidence there’s some sort of Divine Being out there. Constantly we’re bombarded with overwhelming indecisiveness when logging into any of our countless streaming services: Criterion Channel, Fandor, Hulu, Kino Now, MUBI, Netflix, TubiTV, etc. […]
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10 Famous Movies Smarter Than Anyone Wants To Admit
Sometimes a movie comes out and it’s just misunderstood. People are too distracted by the mindless violence or tacky jokes to pay attention to the deeper meaning. When that happens, the movie tends tends to be misunderstood. That leads to this list. A lot of the entries on this list are actually pretty well-received, but […]
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The 10 Best Sci-fi Films About Artificial Intelligence
The concept of artificial intelligence is something that has long fascinated human beings. From the very first science fiction film in 1927 to the present day, artificial intelligence has been an idea explored time and time again in film. In fact, artificial intelligence films have become so common that they are now a sub-genre within […]
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10 Great Movies That Defy The Rules of Genre
How were film genres created? Through the more recent decades of cinema, it has become increasingly common for films to blend elements of different genres in order to tell unique, eye opening, and sometimes disturbing stories. Part of what makes a film “defy” its genre is the director’s innovative use of cinematography and musical score. […]
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10 Great Recent Romantic Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Many of the great romance films of this decade, such as Phantom Thread, Call Me By Your Name, Brooklyn, or Cold War, enjoy passionate fan bases and have been ranked highly among the best films to come out in the last ten years. Not all films gain that reaction though, and some romance films still […]