Next to comedies, more than any other, the horror genre has been historically critically undervalued, perceived unfairly as comic and dispensable. In spite of the validity of its devoted following, harsher critics go so far as to nullify horror’s purpose, snobbishly mocking it. What they’ve failed to recognise is, beyond the arbitrary artifice, these stories […]
Author: Jack Ramsay
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies From The 1990s
Today, with hindsight, critics recognise the 1990s as a belle époque in cinema history. The talent that this decade gave stage to was astonishing, especially in the form of the crime genre. Audiences were assured to see at least one defining crime classic every single year of the decade. As a sequel to the previous […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies of the 1980s
Quentin Tarantino dubbed: “‘80s cinema, along with the ‘50s, the worst era in Hollywood history. In the ‘80s, it was self-censorship. It was the rise of political correctness after the ‘70s, where everything was just ‘go as far as you can. ’Then, all of a sudden, everything got watered down. Everything was cynical, then, in […]
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10 Great Western Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
From the genesis of cinema to the present day, the western genre has remained a favourite with audiences worldwide. Its tales are metaphors for a dog-eat-dog world. Our rivalries, conflicts and inner thoughts are brought to life through a time period when people used bloodshed as currency. The westerns of Classical Hollywood sought to uphold […]
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The 10 Most Underrated Crime Movies Of The 2000s
In-between the neo-noir golden age of the 1990s and the high volume of superb crime movies in the 2010s, the 2000s are often discarded as an uneventful interim period for the genre. With notable exceptions, such as No Country For Old Men or Oldboy, the 2000s were characterised by many great comedies, but arguably less […]
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All 6 Baz Luhrmann Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“Truth, beauty, freedom, love.” Baz Luhrmann’s films are an incendiary bubblegum crossroads, where Italian grand opera, Bollywood, Greek myths and Hollywood Technicolor collide. Growing up in rural Herons Creek, New South Wales, Baz Luhrmann was informed by his father’s profession as a cinema owner and the ballroom dancing he practiced with his mother. In the […]