“Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.” This pessimistic line of dialogue is recited by the emotionally unstable character Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in the groundbreaking film “Taxi Driver”, which was released in 1976, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie […]
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10 Actors Who Won Oscars With Their Debut Performances
Most actors wait a lifetime for the opportunity to win an Oscar. They work hard throughout decades of their careers, picking good and bad parts alike, until they luck out and an affluence of things lead them to the Academy Award win. As the most notorious award in Hollywood, the Oscars are a sign of […]
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2017 Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win In Each Category?
The Academy Awards are right around the category, and like last year, we’re going to try our hand at predicting every single category. Note that this list is not picking the movies that most deserve to win. Rather, it’s picking the most likely winners. Predicting the Oscars requires a lot of annoying analysis, but in […]
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10 Actors Who Won Oscars With The Shortest Screen Time
People don’t win Oscars by the amount of time they’re on screen but because of their performance. Movies are a sum of their parts that make up the whole, and sometimes an entire plot hinges on the actions of just a single character, no matter how small their part may be in the overall film. […]
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6 Reasons Why “Oldboy” is a Modern Masterpiece of South Korean Cinema
This second installment of Park Chan-wook’s “Vengeance Trilogy” is the film that turned global interest toward Korean cinema, one that’s a true masterpiece of South Korean cinema, and one that is still discussed for its unique aesthetics and elaborate technique. “Oldboy” screened at festivals all over the world winning tens of awards, with the Grand […]
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10 Reason Why “The Big Lebowski” is The Coen Brothers’ Best Movie
The Coen Brothers are master storytellers that possess a cinematic and narrative genius that is unparalleled in contemporary American Cinema. Their films are mazes, riddled with irony and brimming with paradoxical narrative elements. They dip their audience into a postmodern labyrinth teaming with abstract meaning. As a result, viewers get caught into a near maddening […]