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By Tharaka Caldera
Netflix’s 2019 anthology series, Love, Death and Robots was an important attempt in the recent entertainment industry for several reasons: First, it’s because of Netflix itself; as online streaming services are gaining popularity a new culture of viewership was introduced. Unlike cable TVs you don’t have to wait for them to broadcast the show you like, now you chose what...
Alfred Hitchcock had directed many masterpieces, among them, this one might have made him the envy of the other movie makers. Shot in one location, few characters confined to an apartment, and that’s all you have to make the 42nd greatest movie on the American Film Institute’s 100 years 100 movies list. Premiered in 1954, its legacy holds fresh even to this day. When...
Why so serious ?
Todd Phillips’ disturbing character study of Arthur Fleck is so iconic that it marks a reflection point of Hollywood’s superhero movie genre. You see no flashy CGI, alien conquerors, drunken gods, million-dollar costumes but it still grossed over record-breaking $1 billion and earned Oscars. Its highly anticipated and satisfactory success set bars for the genre leaving...