“3:10 to Yuma was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy. However, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it’s a very fine line that divides these two.” — Christian […]
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10 Thriller Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
“The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.” — Ken Follett From its inception with The Great Train Robbery (1903), to the ‘40s noirs, to the present slew of titles, what is clear is the thriller genre possess never-ending popularity. While some genres seem to ebb and flow, one can be […]
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10 Great Underrated Crime Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
“I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money.” – Andrew Dominik Since the genesis of cinema, the crime genre has been jam-packed with seminal achievements. However, the assessments of unenlightened, harsh critics […]
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10 Great Underrated Horror Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
Next to comedies, more than any other, the horror genre has been historically critically undervalued, perceived unfairly as comic and dispensable. In spite of the validity of its devoted following, harsher critics go so far as to nullify horror’s purpose, snobbishly mocking it. What they’ve failed to recognise is, beyond the arbitrary artifice, these stories […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies From The 1990s
Today, with hindsight, critics recognise the 1990s as a belle époque in cinema history. The talent that this decade gave stage to was astonishing, especially in the form of the crime genre. Audiences were assured to see at least one defining crime classic every single year of the decade. As a sequel to the previous […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies of the 1980s
Quentin Tarantino dubbed: “‘80s cinema, along with the ‘50s, the worst era in Hollywood history. In the ‘80s, it was self-censorship. It was the rise of political correctness after the ‘70s, where everything was just ‘go as far as you can. ’Then, all of a sudden, everything got watered down. Everything was cynical, then, in […]