10 Great Thriller Movies Favored By The Safdie Brothers

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 […]

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 […]

10 Great Movies About The Existential Dread of Getting Old

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

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 […]