The acting nominees this year seemingly disappointed more people than usual. Maybe it’s because of the time schedule changes done by the Academy, or the wrong campaigning strategies by the studios, or just a competitive race, but many great performances couldn’t make into the cut in the end, despite some being widely predicted and most […]
While the language of cinema in 2019 may have told emotional and diverse stories, the 2020 Oscar nominations seemed to have largely shunned unfamiliar creative voices in favor of conventional and recognizable talents. While the past few Oscar seasons have seemingly worked to rectify the cultural callout of 2016’s #OscarsSoWhite, this year’s 2020 nominations are […]
Every year, Taste of Cinema takes time out of its busy schedule to rank the best performances of an individual year. This time around, we’ll be looking at the twenty best performances of 2019. Like always, this list is about as exhaustive as it can get, but it’s not perfect. The author hasn’t seen every […]
Good thrillers are becoming a rare breed nowadays and coming up with ten titles for this list proved to be more challenging than expected. While making our choices, we decided not to include some movies such as “Ready Or Not”, “Us” or “Crawl”. While they might also fall under the “thriller” label, the previously mentioned […]
It’s always nice to remind oneself of those films that try and innovate – the independent, the experimental – those that take an unusual or distinctive glimpse at the world, or the films that just try something a little different. Orson Welles’s ground-breaking Citizen Kane (1941) reminded Hollywood that one man could make storytelling clever […]
The year 2019 was one of the best cinema years of the last decade. We’ve seen a lot of masterpieces and marvelous films that will be remembered and become classics. Bong Joon-Ho’s “Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes; Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half hour film “The Irishman” was screened on Netflix and won great acclaim; “The […]