World cinema is somewhat hard to define as a term. Usually it has the following components: it is not a Hollywood production, it is often not English spoken (but not by definition), and the term carries a feeling of ‘art-house’ sensibilities. It can be a bit of an Anglo-centric term. Most people associate ‘world cinema’ […]
Month: June 2020
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10 Underrated Nicolas Cage Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Nicolas Cage may have had one of the strangest career trajectories. First, he was an acclaimed indie actor. Then he established himself as a major movie star, a leading man in action and other major studio films. Some kept praising him, some said he’s sold out now, but he tried to balance those big movies […]
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10 Great Recent Horror Movies On Amazon Prime You May Have Missed
Amazon Prime is one of the best streaming services out there for film fans. Their library is gigantic, consisting of both new releases and classics, but most noticeable is the wide offer of b-movies in every genre. Lots of these are not seen by many and just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. When you […]
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10 Great Films Inspired By The Cinema of Jean-Luc Godard
Described sometimes as a pope of modern cinema, Godard has always been famous for his lifetime struggle to reinvent the language of the cinema so it could establish its unique form merely resembling traditional narrative methods. During the peak of his popularity, mainly in 1960’s at the outburst of Nouvelle Vague movement, the French-born director […]
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10 Awesome Movies By Great Directors You May Have Never Seen
There are many reasons why films of merit might wind up being overlooked in a great filmmaker’s back catalogue: the success of previous films might end up over shadowing the release of subsequent ones; distribution struggles may prevent larger audiences from discovering and connecting with a work; and some films just don’t lock with the […]
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The 10 Best Latin American Sci-fi Movies of All Time
The countries that integrate Latin American cinema don’t have the same budget as Hollywood to produce science fiction films with great special effects. From the filmmaking point of view, the amount of money that is needed to produce a film that respects the canons of the genre far exceeds the kind of budget that is […]