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Content Warning: The following article contains spoilers for the HBO shows Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon.One of the central themes of Game of Thrones and the spin-off show House of the Dragon is family. Family plays a gigantic role in the story, which usually involves multiple families quarreling for power. Such memorable families include the Hightowers, the …

From the most hardcore cinephiles to the everyday casual movie fans, the film review website Letterboxd has acted as a beacon and a go-to space for everything relating to films. Users can give their own reviews on pretty much every movie ever made and have allowed its users to connect with other film fanatics from around the world. While movie …

The James Bond franchise is one of the most influential in film history, and not just because of the many rewatchable entries in the saga’s canon. Long before franchises like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe began attracting the attention of avid moviegoers, the Bond films were able to hype up audiences through their brilliant marketing campaigns. Although the …

The Sixties have been a pivotal decade for movie. After the Hays Code deteriorated within the early ’60s and a number of other Hollywood studios felt their highly effective maintain on the trade diminished, a brand new class of administrators emerged in Hollywood. Dubbed New Hollywood or American New Wave, this class of administrators was closely influenced by international movies …

The 1960s were a pivotal decade for film. After the Hays Code deteriorated in the early ’60s and several Hollywood studios felt their powerful hold on the industry diminished, a new class of directors emerged in Hollywood. Dubbed New Hollywood or American New Wave, this class of directors was heavily influenced by foreign films that began screening in the States. …

There’s nothing quite like a great season of television. Whether binging them in one sitting or spacing out each episode to take the time to absorb them, it’s hard to deny that they’re always an entertaining adventure. When done right, a good season of TV can be utterly enthralling, as it follows a captivating story that makes it impossible to …

In the late 1970s, Sigourney Weaver became an early action icon, blasting the male-dominated space doors off their hinges in the sci-fi genre as Ellen Ripley in Alien. The impact of her outer space heroine continues to reverberate, influencing scores of actresses who came after her, like Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Lawrence, and Charlize Theron. Between her Tony Award-Winning stage work …

Kate Winslet is easily one of the best actresses working today, as she has been giving great performances in acclaimed films ever since her breakout in the mid-1990s. Winslet is a notable star because she isn’t afraid to take chances, playing a series of risky roles. While she initially earned traction for starring in romantic dramas, Winslet became instantly iconic …

Hollywood has admittedly come a long way when it comes to the representation of LGBTQ+ characters on screen. Moonlight may have been the first openly LGBTQ+ film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but television shows have gotten significantly more progressive in the last few decades. Viewers may have had to once settle for brief references to the …

As the cinematic landscape, particularly in America, changed drastically through the early 1970s, the onset of exploitation films became a cheap and schlocky yet strangely entertaining and stylistic alternative for many viewers. Throughout that same period, the Australian film industry experienced something of a high point in terms of international interest, propped up by such successes as Picnic at Hanging …