Next year will be the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest films ever to be put on the silver screen, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Made in 1968, Kubrick’s tour de force is an iconic piece of modern media art, with its immeasurable influence still being felt on contemporary directors and filmmaking ideologies […]
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5 Insights Into Human Relationships From “The Lobster”
Yorgos Lanthimos’ dystopian comedy The Lobster imagines a future where single people are sent to a hotel to find a romantic match and if they don’t find that match within an allotted time, they are transformed into an animal of their choice. While staying at the hotel, these singletons are subjected to various activities, shows, […]
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10 Famous Movies Where The Lead Star Hated Their Role
Actors choose the roles they play on a multitude of criteria. Sometimes it is to work with a certain director or other actor, sometimes it is to play a particular character and other times it is for cold hard cash. Most actors will admit to having favourite roles that they have played, or roles that […]
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5 Reasons Why “Mother!” Is The Best Movie Of 2017
Darren Aronofsky is the most underrated great director working in Hollywood today; he exists somewhere between David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, David Lynch, and Luis Bunuel. He has crafted four masterpieces out of the seven films he’s directed, and even the other three have their own merits. All of Aronofsky’s films are about humanity and how […]
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7 Reasons Why “Miller’s Crossing” is a Neglected Masterpiece
There is a good argument to be made for the filmmaking team of brothers Ethan and Joel Coen (one a director, the other a producer, both screenwriters) to be as mainstream as cult filmmakers can possibly get. Yes, they have Oscars (and many other awards) and have had box office success (OK, not up there […]
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The 15 Most Criminally Underrated Film Scores of All Time
Whether it be a Shakespearian drama or Italian slasher, sci-fi action thriller or romantic comedy, the soundtrack plays a detrimental role in whether a film will resonate with audiences or leave them feeling underwhelmed. We hear about director – composer relationships all the time, from John Williams and Steven Spielberg to Krzysztof Kieslowski and Zbigniew […]