Hollywood is generally not known for being the most "truth-telling" of industries. It is an industry that makes bank by over-dramatizing mundane real-life situations, it dresses up romance to be unrealistically spectacular and thus unachievable, and it peddles in entertaining action and violence while shielding the audience from that violence's real-life implications. But there is …
Anybody who has ever been in a school play, community theatre production, church pageant, or other amateur stage production knows the special and sometimes weird community that develops behind-the-scenes. The hyper-specific production-related inside jokes, the heavy amount of hours spent together, and the collective wanting to get the production over the line usually end up …
Cinderella, which I revisited this week, is perhaps the archetypal example of the "rags-to-riches" fictional trope. It is a powerful trope because of the hope it inspires. It is the ultimate story of beating the odds against a brutal and unjust system, of someone coming good in spite of the numerous obstacles standing in the …
(List has been updated to include last year's winner) And we have finally arrived at the Top 25 Oscar winners and suffice to say, these are all just great films with very little separating them. To be honest I could move any of these movies up and down a couple of slots and not have …
Continue reading Ranking Every Oscar Best Picture Winner Part 3 (#25-1)
(Previous instalment, "Best Foreign Films (For People Who Aren't Into Foreign Films)") You know how the story goes. A group of friends decide that it's time to try and get cultured and want to catch up on classic cinema. They stumble upon a list of top films like the American Film Institute Top 100 list. They …
Continue reading Best Classic Films (For People Who Think Black & White Films Are Boring)
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