"What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" (Mark 8:36) The above verse has very often been used to describe the Citizen Kane's and Great Gatsby's of this world – people who have climbed and clawed their way to the top and found little happiness at the peak. But …
(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 …
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Ah yes, the romantic comedy. An oft-mocked genre that tends to rank low on the list of prestige genres. The genres suffers occasional attacks from the right because it apparently glorifies sex while it also has to endure salvos from the left because it paradoxically also seems to entrench regressive gender roles and sexual politics. …
You know how the conversation goes: Somebody at some party or other social gathering this season asks the generally reliable ice-breaker, "What's your favourite Christmas movie?" Conversation gets flowing, and the usual suspects come up (It's a Wonderful Life, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Love Actually). And then some guy (it's almost …
(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 …
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