Taste of Cinema - Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

Steven Spielberg is undoubtedly one of the great directors. Not only that, but he’s also one of the most reliable in terms of consistent quality. Disclosure Day is his seventeenth release of the twenty-first century, which is impressive in itself, but when you look at the range of this output, it’s even more impressive.

Sure, they haven’t all been bona fide mas...

Steven Spielberg returns to our screens in a familiar way, informing us that aliens do indeed exist and, in the case of Disclosure Day, that humans have secretly been abusing these extraterrestrial beings for nearly 79 years and keeping it a secret from the world. You’d be hard-pressed to claim that the idea is original; it’s not even a new idea from the man’s own fil...

For those unfamiliar with the origins of Backrooms, going in blind offers quite the experience. Kane Parsons’ debut feature has its origins on the imageboard website 4chan, with the ‘backrooms’ portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional complex of empty rooms. The idea began with a single image of a large empty room taken at the former site of a furniture store...

Great sports films are not easy to pull off, and when it comes to the most popular sport on our planet, cinematic portrayals have not always been kind. Soccer, as it’s known to some, or football to others, is a sport that captures the imagination, brings the globe together, and can offer joy and pain in equal measure. But could you say the same thing about on-screen d...

One of the biggest stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era, and likely the quintessential Film Noir leading man (next to Edward G. Robinson of course), Humphrey Bogart grew up in a chaotic period of American history in an upper-middle-class family that had high expectations. He roamed from different career paths, most famously serving as a military seaman, where he reportedly...