In February 2015, on the stage of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu dedicated the Oscar he won for Birdman to his fellow Mexicans and generally to all immigrants, defining the United States “an incredible Immigrant Nation”. During the new millennium, the issue of immigration became more important than ever and […]
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The 20 Best Lit Color Films in Movie History
Throughout history, human knowledge has been handed down through the generations via storytelling. Today, most of the planet’s population has access to a near infinite number of sources for knowledge, but still only a handful of platforms for stories: the oral tradition (including songs and lyrics), the written word, the static visual arts (painting, sculpture […]
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The 15 Best Mel Gibson Movies You Need To Watch
With the release and love of Mad Max: Fury Road all over the world in recent weeks, it is hard not to think of Mel Gibson. Obviously, the character of the post-apocalyptic road warrior Mad Max Rockatansky started Gibson’s career decades ago. Since Gibson is now much older (and possibly because he currently has a […]
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10 Recent Movies Criminally Underrated by Their IMDb Scores
IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, is something of the audience’s Rotten Tomatoes. The movie-centric website features all the information you could ever desire about every film ever made, and it also gives users an opportunity to rate those movies on a star-system of 1-10. The website’s user-base is decidedly mainstream – some of the highest […]
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25 Emerging North American Indie Directors You Need To Know
In January 2014, the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis wrote a piece titled, “As Indies Explode, An Appeal For Sanity”, in which she bemoaned the fact that there were too many films being released right now, most of them lackluster, forgettable and just plain bad movies. Salon followed up with another piece on what they’re […]
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12 Must-See Three-Strip Technicolor Films
Technicolor films go way back. The process was the world’s second color process when it was invented in 1916, after Kinemacolor had first hit England back in 1908. From its introduction to the mid-fifties, Technicolor was the most widely used color process in Hollywood although the first three incarnations of the process, from 1916 to […]