The Oscars is in a crisis. While normal Americans (and devoted fans around the world) would easily watch the Superbowl for over four hours, The Academy believe that one way to drive ratings up is to make the entire process shorter. The news that the Best Cinematography Award would be announced during the adverts shocked […]
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All 20 Oscar Nominated Performances From 2018 Ranked
The Oscar nominations for best acting came with lots of happy surprises and lots of egregious snubs. Yet what remains is a lively and diverse list, spanning from utter brilliance to derivative caricature. In honour of their announcement, we have decided to rank them all, both male and female, supporting and lead, from best to […]
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The 10 Biggest Snubs of The 2019 Oscar Nominations
The Oscars were announced on Tuesday morning and the nominations presented plenty of shocks and surprises, some good, some exhausting. Despite the best wishes of most of the critical press, panned films such as Vice, Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book have snuck into Best Picture contention, while plenty of great films, actors and actresses didn’t […]
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10 of The Most Powerful Uses of Music in Cinema
Music has the tremendous ability of evoking feeling from within our innermost depths. It can induce longing, passion, and strength. It can even defy articulation. Ludwig Van Beethoven famously expressed that ‘music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.’ Music is uniquely visceral. Whereas much of cinema’s arsenal operates on the basis of […]
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The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2018
We’re almost a month into 2019, which means we’re slowly starting to distance ourselves from the year before so we can move onto this one. Moviegoers know that January is often the best time to catch up. At this point, new options include A Dog’s Way Home, Escape Room, and Replicas. Simply put, there’s not […]
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The 10 Most Disappointing Movie Endings of All Time
Don’t you hate it when you’re watching a movie and you’re really enjoying it, you might even consider it to be great or even possibly a masterpiece, but then the ending happens and it sucks. The ending is the most important part of a film, get it right and you might turn an otherwise pretty […]