Every so often, a film comes along that truly captures the pulse and zeitgeist of its time and mood. The first film from writer/director Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler is such a film. While a Hollywood screenwriter for some years, nothing previously in his career hinted at this exceptional blow torch of a film that takes aim […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Intelligent Cinema of Christopher Nolan
Out of all the directors working in mainstream cinema today, Christopher Nolan is proving to be one of the most interesting and compelling. Born in London in 1970 and of a British-American ancestry, this is a man who always aspired to make films, starting to experiment, very much like Steven Spielberg before him, at a […]
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The 20 Best Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie Performances
With the recent release of the first part of the final instalment of the “Hunger Games” franchise, “Mockingjay”, apart from the baggage and hype surrounding this particular set of films, it also puts a spotlight on the final performance of an actor that many consider to be one of the finest of his generation. That […]
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The 10 Best Morgan Freeman Movies You Need To Watch
The owner of one of the most distinctive speaking voices in the world, actor Morgan Freeman was born in 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He first came to prominence and the attention of the world via roles in the soap opera Another World and, most notably, in the children’s television show The Electric Company. He was […]
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The 15 Best Steve Buscemi Movie Performances
One of the joys of cinema is looking beyond the ‘name’ actors on screen and concentrating on others that are best known as ‘character actors’. These are the actors and actresses that you might not necessarily recognise by name, but when you see them on screen, you say to yourself something along the lines of […]
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15 Movies That Prove Gary Oldman Is One of The Best Actors Working Today
Over the past three decades, actor Gary Oldman (b. 1958) has left an indelible mark on cinema. Whether it be playing strong pillars of society in a world gone wild, such as in the “Batman” trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan or, as has become something of a specialty for the man, unforgettable villains in mainstream […]