This year’s Oscar ceremony will be the last of the 2010s, leading us to reflect on what a fascinating and diverse bunch of films and cinematic modes have appeared in the past decade. The Best Picture race is no longer dominated by prestige projects or heartbreaking true stories, but often won by diverse and challenging […]
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10 Great Western Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Westerns once dominated the Hollywood era, the European scene, and many aspects of the film world. However, many got overshadowed by the large excesses or similar types of films. On this list, you won’t see films by John Ford, Howard Hawks or Sergio Leone, but rather films that resemble a similar bravura and aesthetic for […]
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10 Oscar Best Picture Winners That Are Unfairly Maligned
The use of ultimates can be a dangerous thing. Calling anything or anyone something that generally ends in the suffix est, or some variation thereof, is almost like a call to arms. There will inevitably be someone(s) else who will assert that the item or person under the magnifying glass of being the best, the […]
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Top 25 Films That Won The Jury Prize At Cannes (Part 1)
Given in its early days as a consolidation award for those movies not lucky enough to get the big one, it became the definitive third place once the Grand Prix was introduced. It is usually reserved for the most decisive features in the line up, ones that made the jurors sit long in the chairs, […]
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10 Great Movies That Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture This Year
Another year has gone by and with every year comes the discussion of snubs. This certainly isn’t a new thing either, the Academy has been snubbing great films ever since their first ceremony in 1929. And of course this year is no exception either. This year we have 8 Best Picture nominees and looking through […]
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10 Great Movies By Famous Directors You May Have Missed
It’s a sad truth that for many of the greatest directors to ever sit behind a camera, there is normally at least one poor film that they’ve made. For Martin Scorsese, it’s Boxcar Bertha, for Akira Kurosawa, it’s Sanshiro Sugata, for Alfred Hitchcock, it’s Mr and Mrs Smith and for Steven Spielberg, it’s… quite a […]