Oh look, it’s time for another bloodbath of quality cinema this week on Cinematic Century. We’ve had several years during the course of this project that led to some incredibly difficult decisions for me, but 1974 has to rank as one of most difficult of all time. […]
Earlier this year we were given a film that attempted to subvert the typical expectations of the heist genre simply by wonder “what if it was heist movie, but with women?” That movie was Ocean’s 8, and it was…fine. At the time I remember thinking it was surprisingly […]
Our tour through the surprising darkness lurking under 1950’s Hollywood’s idealized surface continues this week folks. I often see this decade somewhat written off as a collection of Hollywood’s laziest and most homogenized products, which may be true, but little glimmers of brilliance can be found if […]
I feel like no genre is capable of producing pure cinematic joy as the heist film can. There’s just something magical about this subgenre of movie, giving us stories about glamorous, smart, and ruthless people pulling off fabulous crimes. I don’t know if it’s some strange aspect […]
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