With so many films released every decade and every passing year burying the previous ones further down, it’s not surprising there are literally hundreds of worthwhile films that have become forgotten as time passes. But new is not necessarily better, and as films are tied closely to the current culture of any given year, many […]
The 21st century has been kind to the action genre: big-spectacle, high-budget films have become hot commodities once more after limping through the 1990s hobbled by waning interest in big muscles, big guns, and big explosions. Instead, bigger was not only better but necessary to draw back increasingly shrinking audience engagement in action films. The […]
The 2010s was a decade packed with a bevy of instant classics that gave us plenty of reasons to believe that cinema is still alive and well. Word-of-mouth hits like “Parasite” shattered expectations and carved a niche for themselves despite the alarming dominance of multi-billion-dollar franchises at the box office, the growing popularity of prestige […]
In-between the neo-noir golden age of the 1990s and the high volume of superb crime movies in the 2010s, the 2000s are often discarded as an uneventful interim period for the genre. With notable exceptions, such as No Country For Old Men or Oldboy, the 2000s were characterised by many great comedies, but arguably less […]
It’s no secret that just because The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards a film “Best Picture” of any given year means that’s the absolute truth. Like any group, there are biases and outside factors that influence their decision to award any given nominated film Best Picture. And for sure, masterpieces and true […]
In 2022, moviegoers were treated with a bounty of instant classics at the multiplex that proved that cinema is alive and well. Many high-profile blockbusters that earned impressive box-office receipts and discourse magnets that were showered in accolades have already been discussed at length in the many round-up lists you will come across around this […]