Most comedies are light in terms of tone, but there are a number of bold films that fall into the category of black comedy. Classics like Heathers, Dr. Strangelove and Fargo all depict horrible crimes and terrible people, but there isn’t a mean-spirit to them. They are meant to be satires and as dark as […]
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20 Great Films Where One Of The Main Characters Is A City
City-protagonist indicates a dominant narrative urban space which is more than just a virtual ambient containing the characters and facts. City-protagonist is the film’s principal narrative element and changing it will make the narration completely different if not meaningless. Indicating a location as one of the main characters of the narration may be a perfect […]
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The 15 Best Movies About Corporate Society
When the world became industrialized, the landscape of the world, both economically and culturally, drastically changed. The shift increased the size and influence of corporations worldwide which in turn led to floods of ambitious businessmen looking to work for powerful entities. This influx of people and money formed the modern day corporate culture, filled with […]
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10 Reasons Why Stanley Kubrick Is The Greatest Director Who Ever Lived
Kubrick reigns supreme. He is the top of the pantheon. His is a unique, irreplaceable vision and he died before his time, leaving an incomparable legacy of films that have stood the test for generations. As inscrutable he may outwardly be, he is not a complete cipher. Many internal themes and visual leitmotifs that remained […]
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10 Great Movies Where The Villain Gets Away With It
Ever since the advent of cinema, as well as any other form of storytelling, the moral of a story equals its purpose. Viewers search for meaning, something they can explain as a consequence of what they have seen. Happy endings are incredibly more common than sad or morbid ones, yet there are exceptions that often […]
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15 Hidden Gems of World Cinema That Deserve More Attention
Hidden Gems are those films that have a very small, but passionate following. A variety of reasons cause this: style of filmmaking, lack of distribution, discrimination against the country/gender/race of the director, etc. This list is devoted to bringing some of those films as well as providing ways to access them. Without further ado, here […]