“There will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western.” Steven Spielberg said this back in 2015, and while superhero movies have not died out yet, he does have a point. Genre popularity in film is finite. Sure, there are revivals and resurgences, but a good amount of film genres […]
Month: May 2021
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The 10 Best Conspiracy Horror Movies
Horror has long stood as a genre of many varying facets, mostly for the fact that fear is a primary emotion, and what scares us ranges drastically from person to person. Everyone has experienced fear in some capacity, even if sometimes we don’t care to admit it, and so the empathy we feel with the […]
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10 Great Films That Didn’t Receive a Single Oscar Nomination This Year
It’s never possible to satisfy everyone with awards or film listings, because tastes are always different, but you at least hope that some of your favorite films are in contention to get at least a little bit of recognition. Unfortunately, more often than not they come up short. This year was the same. To be […]
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10 Beautiful Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
What makes a movie beautiful? Some films gain recognition for the inherent beauty in their subject matter, such as sprawling landscapes or majestic movements of wildlife, while other films make aesthetic use of more unsightly subject matter by transforming things like death and decay into art using cinematic technique. Though an undeniably subjective metric by […]
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10 Great Movie Sequels You’ve Probably Never Seen
Some movies are meant to be told in chapters. The proliferation of Marvel films has led the film industry to operate like comic books. Viewers are given grand narratives that play out through trilogies, sagas, and even entire fictional shared universes. However, sometimes, a self-contained film is given the chance to continue telling its story […]
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10 Films That Majorly Inspired Arctic Monkeys’ Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino
Making a strong case for being the most cine-literate mainstream record in recent memory, the last album by ever evolving British rock outfit Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, a sometime concept piece revolving around a mid century style hotel on the Moon, is a truly inspired vision that brilliantly infuses cinematic influences with […]