The Hong Kong film industry is responsible for some of the most influential films and filmmakers of the last 50 years. It’s an industry most renowned for the epic level of martial arts cinema that captured the world’s imagination back in the 70s and 80s, but it’s also been a source of great films in […]
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10 Films That Marked The Decline Of Legendary Filmmakers’ Careers
In the cinema industry, decline can start for several reasons, such as financial failure, bad reviews from international critics and/or audiences, technological change, end of artistic era, political context, bad luck and controversial subject in film. These difficult times can be overcome, but once decline has started; success is hardly likely to ever be the […]
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The 20 Best Postmodernist Movies of All Time
The term Postmodern is quite an oxymoron. It talks about a period which transcends the present. Notions of time, space, reality and existence are all skewed. This ideology became a part of various art forms. We all live in a world where the concept of time and space has become extremely complicated and disorienting because […]
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15 Essential Buster Keaton Films You Need To Watch
Of Silent Films’ “Big Three” ( Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd) Buster Keaton is more famous and critically acclaimed today, than he was in the 1920’s (the guy is Box Office Gold, believe me, I’ve seen it!) and the reason is simple: his films still seem awfully relevant and modern, maybe even more so than when they […]
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10 Essential John Carpenter Films You Need To Watch
John Carpenter is arguably one of the most important and influential genre directors of the last forty years. He quickly established a cult following with many of his 1970s and 1980s efforts that have since become classics, but a string of critical and commercial flops in the 1990s led to the director becoming disillusioned with […]
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15 Of The Best Horror Films With Social-Political Subtext
“Some movies aren’t just movies. They’re closer to voodoo; they channel currents larger and more powerful than themselves.” – EW Film Critic Owen Gleiberman What makes a horror movie transcend its often ill-respected genre and become a lasting part of the cultural zeitgeist? The answer is the same thing that makes a horror movie not […]