From negligent fathers and heroin junkies to bank robbers and self-destructive gamblers. These are the kind of characters that populate the films of the Safdie Brothers. A whole array of crooked individuals who are driven into extremely erratic behavior by their own desperation. If there is a recurrent theme in each of their first four […]
Month: August 2021
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10 Great Spaghetti Westerns You’ve Probably Never Seen
Since the film industry was born, Italy has always been one of the top competitors on the world stage. As early as the Italian futurism movement to the Neorealism movement, Italy has made tons of incredibly delicate films. In the 1960s and the 1970s they showed us they could make not only really refined films, […]
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10 Great Classic Sci-fi Films You’ve Probably Never Seen
This is a list to all those films that fell by the wayside as goliaths of the genre and decades marched on. These films are by no means the best films ever made, they all have issues (Some greater than others…). The point to be made however is that they are unjustly forgotten or dismissed […]
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10 Great Horror Movies Favored By Guillermo del Toro
In the pantheon of great filmmakers who are also avid cinephiles, Tarantino and Scorsese, with their encyclopedic knowledge and infectiously passionate way of speaking, get the most attention from their fellow film lovers. A name not often cited in this pantheon, but one that should evoke immediate thoughts of pure, unadulterated cinematic geekiness is Guillermo […]
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The 10 Best Warren Oates Movie Performances
The majority of the films that Warren Oates starred in, he does not play the main character, but is undoubtedly the stand out performance in each film making him one of the all time great character actors to ever grace the screen. Not nearly appreciated enough when he was in his prime, his present day […]
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10 Great Movies About The Existential Dread of Getting Old
The strongest movies are those that get at the heart of what it means to be human, allowing viewers to feel connected to characters with lives that are drastically different from their own. As a filmmaker, one of the most effective ways of endearing an audience to a film’s characters is by utilizing universal emotions […]