When we think about great performances, it’s often the boisterous and dialogue-filled that come to mind. It’s Daniel Day-Lewis as the ominous, intense oil baron Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. It’s Jesse Eisenberg’s frantic Mark Zuckberberg in The Social Network. It’s Robert De Niro as the explosively stubborn Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. […]
Year: 2020
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10 Movie Masterpieces of The 1980s That Flopped At The Box Office
It has become common in recent years to look back on the ‘80s as one of Hollywood’s worst decades – a tawdry era of infantilization, golden age of the video shop, when Best Picture winners were elephantine bores, and the comic book blockbuster, that still dominates cinema forty years later, was born. It is almost […]
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10 Great Movies That Satirize The Bourgeois Lifestyle
We currently live in a time full of heartache and confusion, where governments, conglomerates and the media appear to be getting less trust-worthy with every passing day. With that being said, there has never been a more prescient moment in modern history where satire is needed more than right now. Satire is at its best […]
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10 Great Hong Kong Crime Movies You May Have Never Seen
Were you to pick one genre that Hong Kong cinema is most representative of, what would you choose? Swashbuckling Wuxia epics? Slapstick 80s comedy? Over-the-top exploitation horror? Or would you choose crime movies? Particularly, action-packed productions exemplifying the Chinese concepts of heroic brotherhood and honor? If crime movies are your choice, well-chosen. One of the […]
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10 Great Bizarre Movies You May Have Never Seen
Some praise the feeling of realism in Vittorio De Sica’s films set in post-war Italy. Others enjoy the way Werner Herzog’s varied documentaries beautifully immerse audiences in the universal human condition. The ten films listed below go for broke in making viewers forget about the world as they know it and challenge them to say […]
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10 Vietnam War Movies Not Set In Vietnam
The Vietnam War was more than just a war. It became part of Western cultural consciousness in a way that other conflicts of the 20th and 21st century failed to achieve. The Korean War, the Bosnian War, Afghanistan and both wars in Iraq have their place in cinematic history: the World Wars even more so. […]