You are not given the nickname Enfant chéri or Darling Child from the famous Cannes Festival for no reasons. At only 27 years old, Xavier Dolan has wrote and directed seven worldwide acclaimed pictures and two videoclips with combined views of over two billions. Dolan eats, sleeps and breathes cinema and has done so his […]
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7 Reasons Why “The Master” Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Underrated Masterpiece
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is one of the finest works of our time. The incredible artistic merit of the work is rarely disputed; it ranked 24 on the BBC’s 2016 poll of the best films of the 21st century, which polled 177 renowned critics worldwide, and it received almost unanimous praise upon its release. […]
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7 Reasons Why “Fargo” is a Masterpiece of Crime Cinema
There is an old adage which informs that the world worships the original. This may well be true, but sometimes it takes so long for the world to decide that the original is worth worshipping that the object of worship is either dead or as good as dead by the time the adulation takes place. […]
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7 Reasons Why “Se7en” Is The Best Serial Killer Movie of All Time
Many longtime movie genres such as musicals, westerns, melodramas and the like have, in recent times, either largely vanished from big screens or become marginalized. However, one genre that not only keeps going but seems to have grown in popularity and prestige is the mystery/suspense thriller. Something about the forces of good, or at least […]
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5 Reasons Why “Alien: Covenant” Will Redeem “Prometheus”
It’s not uncommon to see “Prometheus” on the list of the biggest cinematic disappointments, and for a very good reason. It had everything going for it, all signs pointed to something special, and it was an origin story of the classic Xenomorph creature, directed by the man who introduced us to this creature two decades […]
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4 Reasons Why “Sunset Boulevard” is a Masterpiece of American Cinema
There’s nothing else. Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I’m ready for my close-up. – Norma Desmond Hollywood had never been so faithfully depicted before as in Billy Wilder’s production of Sunset Blvd. Remembered today, as a noir icon – right alongside […]