The 21st century has been kind to the action genre: big-spectacle, high-budget films have become hot commodities once more after limping through the 1990s hobbled by waning interest in big muscles, big guns, and big explosions. Instead, bigger was not only better but necessary to draw back increasingly shrinking audience engagement in action films. The […]
Month: April 2023
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The 10 Most Horrifying Movies of All Time
What classifies a film as being truly horrifying? Is it just about how scary it is or is about how it stays with the viewer after the credits have rolled? Both can be true, but it’s the ones where these feelings overlap that make for punishing cinema. There has been a plethora of horror films […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Movies Of The 2010s
The 2010s was a decade packed with a bevy of instant classics that gave us plenty of reasons to believe that cinema is still alive and well. Word-of-mouth hits like “Parasite” shattered expectations and carved a niche for themselves despite the alarming dominance of multi-billion-dollar franchises at the box office, the growing popularity of prestige […]
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The 10 Oddest Outlier Movies From A Director’s Filmography
This list may cause some double-takes. They directed THAT? No need to check IMDb for fact-checking. It may be impossible to imagine, but these anonymous films were created from the visions of established auteurs with distinct stylistic and thematic throughlines. These directors took on these films for financial purposes, just as a change of pace, […]
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All 9 Rocky Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Now nearing 50 years, the Rocky franchise is just as determined and durable as Rocky “The Italian Stallion” Balboa. Created by Sylvester Stallone, the first film came out in 1976 and the franchise is still going strong to this day. While Rocky won Best Picture, to date there have been 9 films in the franchise, […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Faith And Religion
Humans seek the comforts of religion for a diverse set of reasons, latching on to a shared mythos as a common shield against the unbearable unpredictability of life. There’s nothing as reassuring as assuming that there’s a perceived order and purpose to all of our occurrences — as despairing or chaotic as they might seem. […]