7 Reasons Why “Unbreakable” is the Most Underrated Superhero Movie of All Time

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When M. Night Shyamalan became an overnight sensation after making The Sixth Sense, he was able to do whatever he wanted (basically) as a follow-up. He chose the understated superhero/comic book origin story Unbreakable. Masquerading as a serious drama, Unbreakable took the tropes and beliefs of comic books and plugged them into a story that […]

7 Reasons Why “Split” Is Shyamalan’s Career Comeback Movie

M. Night Shyamalan’s career trajectory is a product of the unforgiving American cinematic industry; the weird mechanisms of Internet irony that belittles and ridicules; and a brand of cinema that lies between Spielberg-ian imaginative morality tales with a spiritual undertone, a love for Hitchcock and the classics of suspense, and an appreciation for the B-movie […]

10 Movie Characters With Weird Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of

There are millions of jobs out there – some common, others not so much. And so the same goes for fictional characters in films. A lot of thought goes into the character’s creation, including the assignment of their occupation, even if the plot doesn’t necessarily revolve around it. This is because, of course, it is […]

8 Reasons Why “The Proposition” is a Modern Classic of Western Cinema

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Throughout much of the middle of the 20th Century that made up the Golden Age of Hollywood, the most popular and financially successful film genre was the Western. In this time, John Wayne was one of the biggest box office draws, and films like Stagecoach, High Noon, The Searchers, and The (original) Magnificent Seven were […]