Imagine Game of Thrones had ended after the famous execution of season one. That’s how this miniseries felt. It’s easier to number the things Tut did right but it’s greatest fault might be the fact that they chose the short lived reign (or rather the even shorter end of it) of Tutankhamun. Sure, Tutankhamun is after Cleopatra probably the most famous pharaoh of Egyptian history, thanks to the famous discovery of his tomb which kickstarted the original Egyptian craze in…
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The Wicker Man 1973
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I think this might be the first horror movie that made me feel more sad than frightened. Howie might have been a jerk, but the way how he is betrayed by everyone and dies completely alone while the cult celebrates made me almost cry …
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Nanook of the North 1922
Nanook of the North is one of the earliest documentaries and Robert J. Flaherty manages to connect his “neutral, observant accounts” with a narrative to tell the “accurate” story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family. It’s Flaherty’s attempt to show the people who would never get the chance to travel to the northern reaches of Canada and meet the Inuit themselves, how these “noble savages” life in their hostile environment.
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Nosferatu 1922
In an feeble attempt to avoid copyright infringement by the Stoker estate, director F.W. Murnau decided to change the setting of the late 19th century Britain to the mid-19th-century Germany, to rename the main characters and to omit many of the secondary characters. The result was named Nosferatu, a word used in Bram Stokers novel Dracula (though he did not coin the term himself) for the undead. In the end though, the similarities were still pretty obvious by anyone and…
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