There are times when characters leap right out of the pages of comic books and onto the silver screen as a direct result of the actors portraying them. There are the occasional miscasts, but more often than not, the actors are appropriate for their roles, sometimes being ideally cast. Casting choices in comic book films […]
- Features
- ...
The 30 Most Overlooked American Movies of The 1990s
Whether your opinion is positive or negative towards it, there is no denying that the 1990’s were, at the very least, an interesting time for American movies. Audiences were cynical and hip enough to buy into the cool Tarantino style that bridged the indie and the mainstream world in film forever. But they also wanted […]
- Features
- ...
The 20 Best French Films of The 21st Century
France has always been a trailblazer for European cinema. To begin with, it played a key role in the birth of film with the Lumière brothers’ shorts, while in the ‘20s it became prominent with the French Impressionist Cinema and in the late 50s a new generation of French directors arrived to turn everything upside […]
- Features
- ...
12 Great Movies that Would Make Even Greater TV Shows
We are in a men’s public restroom. Where is it located? Apparently, it is placed somewhere in New Mexico. It has the same flicker of kind pity and wry loneliness all public washrooms have, but it is absent in the stinging smells of ravaged and ambulatory shit they all bear. Walter White is changing the […]
- Features
- ...
The 25 Best Animated Short Films You Can Watch Online
Short films remain, compared to their lengthier siblings, under-appreciated and unknown today. But, as anyone who’s ever seen an art film (or an exploitation film) knows, a lack of commercial appeal can bode extremely well for artistic potential. A seeming irony, there’s nothing shocking about this contrast at all: not having to find commercial success […]
- Features
- ...
10 Great Movies of The 21st Century You Might Have Missed
In 2006 when Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) and Richard Roeper reviewed the movie Half Nelson together, they spoke about how people complain that there is “no more originality in movies”. They explain that in fact films are as original as they ever have been, “you just have to look for them”. In the modern […]