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Continue reading →: Oscars 2016 Best Picture Nominees
American films do not have the monopoly to be called great. Yet, their wide rich and strong influence to the popular crowd are undeniable. This February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) will honor last year’s best of cinema. The Best Picture Award is the highest among all…
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Continue reading →: Spotlight: Sans glamor and gimmickry
By Heinrich Domingo Realities are to be portrayed as real. Today’s movies based on actual life events tend to romanticize stories and repackage realities. In order to create a heart-pounding action-packed epic film, the plot is exaggerated, musical scoring is overdone, and characters are portrayed as fearless heroes. Spotlight takes…
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Continue reading →: Anomalisa: Melancholia in the eyes of the lifeless
By Heinrich Domingo Cinema often portrays loneliness through piercing wails from emphatic characters. Anomalisa believes it does not need to do so. It enters into the core of the audience using simulated movements of inanimate objects. It proposes that the complexity of human psyche can be alternatively seen using lifeless…
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Continue reading →: Five Painful Romance Films You Must Watch this February
In this month of hopeless romantics, we give you a list of films proving that love isn’t always sweet and happy. There are movies that deviate from the path of cheesy romcoms and they are willing to reveal to you that romance requires pain. So if you are the type…
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Continue reading →: Love Me If You Dare: A romcom like no other
By Heinrich DOmingo Love is a game. It has two main players both in a battle of dominating each other. This is Love Me If You Dare’s premise. Two irrational characters are placed in a rational environment which they believe revolves around them. It is a film that bears metaphors…
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