Amidst character development and storytelling which are considered to be the main ingredients for a watchable movie, visual style and precise direction are the main ones for a cinematic masterpiece. And since the seventh art is encapsulated for the most part in what meets the eye, here are some of the most wonderfully shot films […]
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14 Great Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
Here we go again, another attempt to rediscover cinematic gems from the past. We did our best to make this list diverse, because you, the TOC readers, have eclectic tastes that will not be easily satisfied. Hopefully this short list will offer you something to add to your already long watchlist. 1. Thieves’ Highway […]
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10 Famous Movie Directors You Either Love Or Hate
An artist’s highest aspiration is to pierce a panhuman foundation of ideas, defining on that very breakthrough an original locus of distinctive perceptions. Indeed, art has been carrying out this task since its inception. Exposing the darkest and best self-concealed aspects of societies, various legendary artists have shocked through their work. But what has been […]
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The 15 Best Horror Movies of 2018
2018 has been a great year for horror fans. Sure there were a few sequels nobody asked for, though a few of those were actually rather well done (the following list sidesteps Johannes Roberts’s The Strangers: Prey at Night and Colin Hardy’s The Nun, but both films reward a late night watch), and there’s a […]
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The 10 Bleakest Movie Endings of All Time
If there is one rule most films liked to adhere to is giving viewers a happy ending. After a long, arduous journey, the hero is rewarded and so are audiences, with a warm fuzzy feeling of the “they lived happily ever after” persuasion. Although this practice was religiously followed in the early days of cinema, […]
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10 Recent Movies You Either Love Or Hate
Like any form of art, films are divisive. What one person enjoys is not necessarily going to be what another person does and vice versa. Audiences are frequently divided over whether a film has merit or not. However, there are some films which appear to go beyond this and split audiences firmly one way or […]