Sometimes, an iconic line of dialogue unexpectedly takes on a life of its own and ends up infiltrating our cultural vernacular for no apparent reason. And all it takes is one or two famous catchphrases to turn a great movie into a full-blown pop-cultural phenomenon that embeds itself in the public consciousness and that fans […]
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The 10 Most Rewatchable Western Movies of All Time
Reports of the Western genre’s demise have been greatly exaggerated many times over harkening back to its very conception in the silent era and glorious heydays as Hollywood’s premiere crowd-pleaser during the Golden Age, all the way to its gradual but steady decline in the latter half of the 20th century and subsequent revivals. And […]
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10 Great 1990s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
Growing up as I did as a film lover in the 1990s, looking back now I can see it truly was a special time for both independent and mainstream cinema. Every month saw the release of half a dozen tent pole pictures, huge-budgeted blockbusters which essentially kept the film industry afloat so that there was […]
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The 10 Most Favorite Movies of Ingmar Bergman
One of the perks of being one of the most brilliant filmmakers to ever pick up a camera is that you don’t have to sugarcoat your opinion regarding anybody in the business. If there was anything consistent with Ingmar Bergman is that when it came to judging the work of his peers, he never kept […]
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10 Great Thriller Movies Favored By Richard Linklater
Ever since he burst onto the scene with “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused” in the early 1990s, Richard Linklater has solidified himself as one of the most essential voices in American cinema as well as an unflagging champion of film preservation, having spent the past four decades curating series as film programmer at his Austin […]
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10 Great Movies That Inspired Filmmakers To Make Movies
We all have that one movie that shook us to the chore and pushed our worldview in the process. It might have happened when we were at a young, and fairly impressionable age, thus making us fall in love with cinema, or it could have grabbed us at a moment in life that sparkled that […]