When people talk about “the death of cinema,” one of the key things they usually attribute it to is the idea that the movie star as we used to know it is now meaningless. With the advent of social media, the decline of people watching talk shows live on TV, and movie stars feeling too […]
The Cannes Film Festival has just ended, the awards had been given, and here we go with the reviews about the movies that premiered there, in competition or in one of the numerous screenings in the most important film festival of the planet. First of all, let’s define the research fields: the outcome is based […]
Choosing ten ‘deadliest movie characters of all time’ from over a century-old history has been quite a task. As a result, some deadly characters that deserve inclusion might be excluded. Even before starting out to collate the ‘deadliest movie characters of all time list’, there was little ambiguity about a few of them. Topping the […]
Social institutions can be great settings for narrative films, as the following list excitedly details. But of all our esteemed social institutions, and usually people think of hospitals, police stations, or private and public schools, it is psychiatric institutions that perhaps provoke mostly anger, anxiety, and flat-out fear. Now while this isn’t an entirely fair […]
Politics is one of the favorite subjects of cinema since the time of its very foundation. First, movies were used as a powerful propaganda machine, but subsequently developed into artistic device to criticize and vivisect various elements of political power. Directors became free to express their own political views and ideologies through their films. In […]
According to many, Alfred Hitchcock is the greatest director of all time. Dubbed the Master of Suspense, the majority of Hitchcock’s filmography aligns with the mystery and thriller genres. Throughout his career, he frequently used similar plot devices and techniques from film to film as a way of capturing the audience into his suspenseful tales […]