Now that the sun has set on the 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (which ran from September 26th to October 11th, 2019), Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from what was another bustling, exciting, and very impressive festival. As with previous years at VIFF, it was a very crowded field with so many […]
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10 Popular Horror Movies That Aren’t Really Scary
We are living in the golden age of horror. The output of the genre was always proliferous, but the quality of the films was not always worth mentioning. Now, in the 21st century, the films have become better in creating and maintaining chills, scares, and atmosphere. These films are often psychological and also contain a […]
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10 Great Movies That Were Initially Polarizing
Some films debut to universal acclaim and instantly gain classic status, but often it takes time to win over an audience. It’s hard to determine what a film’s legacy will look like based on the first reactions it gets, and some films initially deemed to be divisive gain a new critical appreciation after years of […]
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10 Great Movies That Perfectly Blend Arthouse With Grindhouse
Ingmar Bergman and Herschell Gordon Lewis walk into a bar, a magical pub populated only with filmmakers. Seated in a smoky corner lit via neon beer sign, Ed Wood and Andrei Tarkovsky gab about science fiction over a couple of bourbons. Elsewhere Lynne Ramsay chalks her pool cue while she debates Roger Corman on the […]
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10 Great Recent Arthouse Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
The common denominator of the following brilliant ten art house films is quite simple: every one of them has been an official selection in the last decade at one of the top three European Film Festivals (Cannes, Berlin, or Venice). Nine out of the ten films have won awards. The single exception is the Chad-France […]
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The 10 Best Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies of The 21st Century
The term “Utopia” was introduced by Thomas More in 1516, describing a fictional island society that’s conceived to be nearly perfect, in almost every aspect. “Dystopia” is the exact opposite, depicting often futuristic societies or states where life is rather terrible and things keep getting worse for everyone, instead of improving. In time, Dystopia has […]