Great movies get lost or ignored for the same alchemy of factors that make lackluster ones into hits: studio politics, a given star’s popularity (or infamy), and the current zeitgeist’s appetites. Sometimes they’re overshadowed by a gargantuan hit, as people forget other great flicks were released during the box office runs of The Godfather, ET […]
Month: August 2020
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10 Great German-Language Horror Films You May Have Never Seen
Horror has been depicted in cinema since the dawn of the seventh art: pioneers along the likes of Georges Melies and Ejiro Hatta dabbled with the macabre and the otherworldly in the Fin de siècle period already. As time moved on, it proved to be one of the preffered ways of handling cinematic narratives, both […]
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14 Great Animated Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Animation isn’t a genre, it’s an art form. Sadly the general audience often does not realize this, resulting in less movies and funding. Which is extremely unfortunate, as animation is probably the best thing that ever happened to cinema. Think about it, seventy-five percent of live-action movies coming out nowadays are practically animated because of […]
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The 10 Best Joel Schumacher Movies
Joel Schumacher was, among many things, a versatile director. The man has made a war film, a vampire classic, romantic comedies, teen dramas, courtroom movies, a musical, a biography, an action film, and so on. He was a journeyman director who always explored different genres and didn’t mind tackling almost controversial, unusual themes for Hollywood […]
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The 20 Best Action Movies of The 2000s
It is strange that the films of the early 21st Century now seem “retro,” and that the early developments of the digital era are quite different from the world of cinema today. Compared to the action films of the 90s, which included a mix of high camp and more experimental auteurism, action cinema in the […]
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10 Great Recent Arthouse Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
In the resistance against a globalized world, it becomes necessary to rescue the authentic vision of an auteur cinema because we can see, through its sensitivity, what we are as society. Films that include its director in the plot in an intimate way or denunciate about a social reality let us understand cinema as a […]