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analysis
- 90s
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- action
- analysis
- article
- asian leads in us cinema
- black leads in us cinema
- budgets
- car chases
- career retrospective
- comedy
- creative decline
- crime
- digi doubles
- digital crowds
- drama
- epic cinema
- face off
- fantasy
- female leads
- fights
- kung fu
- latino leads
- lgbt movies
- lgbt us movies
- martial arts
- movie scenes
- neo noir
- opening credits
- parkour
- pg-13
- quentin tarantino
- ranking
- ranking franchise
- realism
- romance
- science fiction
- scream
- shaky cam
- strong female roles
- thriller
- top fifty
- top ten
- wire fu
- woke
- wuxia
- 6 underground
- 13 hours: the secret soldiers of benghazi
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- 2023
- al pacino
- alex proyas
- alfie allen
- alfred hitchcock
- alien
- alien vs predator
- alyssa sutherland
- ambulance
- american
- american cinema
- andrew niccol
- angelina jolie
- ant-man and the wasp
- arabic
- armageddon
- army of darkness
- azumi
- baby driver
- bad boys
- bad boys 2
- bad boys ii
- banlieu 13
- banlieue 13
- batman
- batman and robin
- batman begins
- batman forever
- batman returns
- ben affleck
- bill skarsgard
- black rain
- blue steel
- brad pitt
- brandon lee
- bridget fonda
- brotherhood of the wolf
- bruce campbell
- bruce dern
- bruce lee
- bruce willis
- bryan singer
- call me by your name
- carol
- carrie-anne moss
- cary hiroyuki tagawa
- cat on a hot tin roof
- cate blanchett
- chad stahelski
- charlies angels
- chow yun-fat
- chris penn
- christian bale
- christoph waltz
- christopher nolan
- cinema epics
- clancy brown
- comic adaptation
- common
- con air
- cruising
- curse of the golden flower
- cutthroat island
- dan laustsen
- danny trejo
- daredevil
- daryl hannah
- david carridine
- david lean
- david leich
- dawn of the dead
- death proof
- death race
- deja vu
- dennis villeneuve
- denzel washington
- desperado
- diane kruger
- die hard
- django unchained
- dog day afternoon
- donnie yen
- doug liman
- dr strange
- drunken master ii
- eddie murphy
- edgar wright
- english
- enter the dragon
- event horizon
- everything everywhere all at once
- evil dead
- evil dead 2
- evil dead franchise
- evil dead rises
- ewan mcgregor
- face off
- fast five
- flashpoint
- franchise
- freddy krueger
- freddy vs jason
- gareth evans
- george lucas
- george miller
- george romero
- german
- ghostbusters
- ghostbusters afterlife
- gladiator
- gore verbinski
- halle berry
- halloween
- hard boiled
- harvey keitel
- hellboy
- hellboy ii the golden army
- hero
- hiroyuki sanada
- hugh jackman
- hugo weaving
- hungarian
- ian mckellen
- ian mcshane
- iko uwais
- independence day
- indonesian
- inglourious basterds
- iron man
- italian
- jackie brown
- jackie chan
- jake gyllenhaal
- james badge dale
- james bond
- james cameron
- jamie foxx
- jamie lee curtis
- jane levy
- japanese
- jason statham
- jennifer lopez
- jessica alba
- jet li
- jodie foster
- joe taslim
- joel p richard
- joel schumacher
- john badham
- john cameron mitchell
- john carpenter
- john frankenheimer
- john krasinski
- john leguizamo
- john mctiernan
- john singleton
- john travolta
- john wick
- john wick chapter 2
- john wick chapter 3 parabellum
- john wick chapter 4
- john woo
- jonathan sela
- joss whedon
- justin lin
- kate beckinsale
- keanu reeves
- kevin williamson
- kill bill
- kill bill volume 1
- kill bill volume 2
- kill zone
- kung fu hustle
- kurt russell
- lana and lilly wachowski
- lana and lilly watchowski
- lance reddick
- latino leads
- lau kar-leung
- laurence fishburne
- leonardo dicaprio
- letters from iwo jima
- lily sullivan
- lionsgate
- lord of the rings
- lord of war
- luc besson
- lucy liu
- machete
- mad max fury road
- maggie cheng
- man on fire
- marc dacascos
- mario van peebles
- mark walhberg
- marlon brando
- martial arts
- martin lawrence
- martin scorsese
- marvel
- marvel cinematic universe
- matt battinelli-olpin
- matt damon
- matt reeves
- melanie laurent
- memoirs of a geisha
- michael bay
- michael fassbender
- michael madsen
- michael nyqvist
- michael parks
- midnight cowboy
- mila jovovich
- milla jovovich
- monster hunter
- mortal kombat
- mortal kombat 1995
- mortal kombat 2021
- my own private idaho
- neil marshall
- new line cinema
- new nightmare
- nicolas cage
- nightmare on elm street
- no time to die
- once upon a time in china ii
- once upon a time in hollywood
- pain and gain
- pam grier
- paul greengrass
- paul verhoeven
- paul ws anderson
- pearl harbour
- peter jackson
- peter stormare
- philadelphia
- pierre morel
- point break
- police story
- psycho
- pulp fiction
- quentin tarantino
- r-rated
- raging bull
- raiders of the lost ark
- ranking career
- raul julia
- rebel moon part 1
- renny harlin
- reservoir dogs
- resident evil
- resident evil retribution
- ridley scott
- ringo lam
- robert clouse
- robert de niro
- robert englund
- robert rodriguez
- robin shou
- rocketman
- rogue
- romeo must die
- ronin
- rosario dawson
- rose mcgowan
- ruben fleischer
- russell crowe
- russian
- ryan reynolds
- salma hayek
- sam raimi
- sammo hung
- samuel l jackson
- saturday night fever
- scarlet johansson
- scream
- scream 2
- scream 3
- scream 4
- scream 5
- scream 6
- sean connery
- shang chi and the legend of ten rings
- shia labeouf
- shortbus
- sidney lummet
- sigourney weaver
- simon mcquoid
- simon west
- slasher franchise
- slasher movies
- some men like it hot
- sony pictures
- spanish
- speed
- spiderman no way home
- stanley kubrick
- star wars
- star wars episode i the phantom menace
- star wars episode ii attack of the clones
- star wars episode iii revenge of the sith
- starship troopers
- stephen chow
- steven spielberg
- tar
- terminator
- terminator 2 judgement day
- terminator 3 rise of the machines
- terminator dark fate
- the avengers
- the batman
- the birdcage
- the bourne identity
- the bourne supremacy
- the bourne ultimatum
- the cell
- the crow
- the dark knight
- the dark knight rises
- the evil dead
- the exorcist
- the favourite
- the girl with the dragon tattoo
- the hateful eight
- the haunting
- the hunted
- the island
- the karate kid
- the last samurai
- the league of extraordinary gentlemen
- the legend of the drunken master
- the long kiss goodnight
- the mask of zorro
- the matrix
- the matrix reloaded
- the matrix revolutions
- the mummy returns
- the network
- the raid
- the raid 2
- the rock
- the shining
- the warriors
- tim burton
- tim roth
- tom hanks
- tom tykwer
- tomb raider
- tony leung
- top ten
- transformers
- transformers age of extinction
- transformers dark of the moon
- transformers revenge of the fallen
- transformers the last knight
- transporter
- tsui hark
- tyler bates
- tyler gillett
- uma thurman
- underworld
- us cinema
- van helsing
- videogame adaptation
- ving rhames
- wachowskis
- walter hill
- walton goggins
- warner bros
- watchowskis
- wes craven
- wheels on meals
- will smith
- william friedkin
- x-men
- x-men 2
- yamakashi
- yayan ruhian
- zack snyder
- zhang yimou
- zoe bell
- zombieland
analysis,
action,
2000s,
digi doubles,
wire fu,
car chases,
budgets,
strong female roles,
parkour,
pg-13,
shaky cam,
digital crowds,
realism
George Karystianis
analysis,
action,
2000s,
digi doubles,
wire fu,
car chases,
budgets,
strong female roles,
parkour,
pg-13,
shaky cam,
digital crowds,
realism
George Karystianis
Dissecting Action: The 2000s
A controversial decade for action
analysis,
creative decline,
epic cinema
George Karystianis
analysis,
creative decline,
epic cinema
George Karystianis
Epic cinema is dead; Long Live the Cheap Mediocrities
Is modern epic cinema dead?
woke,
analysis,
lgbt movies,
lgbt us movies
George Karystianis
woke,
analysis,
lgbt movies,
lgbt us movies
George Karystianis
Woke films always existed. You just did not care Part V
A history of US films with LGBT leading roles
woke,
analysis,
asian leads in us cinema
George Karystianis
woke,
analysis,
asian leads in us cinema
George Karystianis
Woke films always existed. You just did not care Part IV
The joys of discovering Asian leads in US cinema
woke,
analysis,
latino leads
George Karystianis
woke,
analysis,
latino leads
George Karystianis
Woke films always existed. You just did not care Part III
A history about US films with Latino leads
woke,
analysis,
female leads
George Karystianis
woke,
analysis,
female leads
George Karystianis
Woke films always existed. You just did not care Part II
A history of strong female roles in US films
article,
woke,
analysis,
asian leads in us cinema,
black leads in us cinema
George Karystianis
article,
woke,
analysis,
asian leads in us cinema,
black leads in us cinema
George Karystianis
Woke Films Always Existed; You Just Did Not Care - Part I
A history of US films featuring Black leads