“All my work shares a balance between black comedy and sad, despairing melancholy.” – Martin McDonagh. London Irishman Martin McDonagh began his career in the mid-‘90s as a playwright – an enfant terrible of the inflammatory ‘In-yer-face theatre’ movement. His blood-spattered dramas, such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, are chiefly set on or off […]
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All 10 Kathryn Bigelow Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons.” – Roger Ebert on Bigelow’s films. California-born Kathryn Bigelow began as an artist, before transitioning in to making short films. In the ‘80s, she directed two cult neo-noir pictures, before establishing herself as cinema’s finest author of action movies. More recently, she’s […]
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All 7 Yorgos Lanthimos Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“Me, personally, what I want is to allow people to be engaged actively in watching the film. I like to construct films in a way that makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, [but so you’ll still] be able to enjoy them, be intrigued [and] start to think about the meaning of things – and hopefully […]