Growing up as I did as a film lover in the 1990s, looking back now I can see it truly was a special time for both independent and mainstream cinema. Every month saw the release of half a dozen tent pole pictures, huge-budgeted blockbusters which essentially kept the film industry afloat so that there was […]
Month: July 2024
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The 10 Most Favorite Movies of Ingmar Bergman
One of the perks of being one of the most brilliant filmmakers to ever pick up a camera is that you don’t have to sugarcoat your opinion regarding anybody in the business. If there was anything consistent with Ingmar Bergman is that when it came to judging the work of his peers, he never kept […]
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10 Great Thriller Movies Favored By Richard Linklater
Ever since he burst onto the scene with “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused” in the early 1990s, Richard Linklater has solidified himself as one of the most essential voices in American cinema as well as an unflagging champion of film preservation, having spent the past four decades curating series as film programmer at his Austin […]
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10 Great Movies That Inspired Filmmakers To Make Movies
We all have that one movie that shook us to the chore and pushed our worldview in the process. It might have happened when we were at a young, and fairly impressionable age, thus making us fall in love with cinema, or it could have grabbed us at a moment in life that sparkled that […]
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10 Great 1980s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
The 1980s were a lucrative time for American cinema, a decade in where films were consistently making previously unimaginable sums of money at the box office. Largely unpoliticized, much of the most popular cinema of the 1980s was about having a good time, living a rich and fulfilled life, overcoming the odds, and getting the […]
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The 20 Best Supernatural Horror Movies of All Time
One of the oldest and purest forms of storytelling in genre cinema that has also proven continually popular over the years are horror movies that contain all sorts of paranormal elements. From demonic possessions and poltergeist to evil spirits lurking just beneath the alluring comforts of family, these fright fests have taken many shapes and […]