Top 10 Directors

Filmography matters; but the more important considerations that we made to come up with this list were: Is the director at top of his or her game ? Is his/her next movie waited by critics and audiences alike? And does he/she have the ability to experiment and improve the horizons of cinema? Therefore, you will observe, a Steven Spielberg or even Woody Allen, who have the best filmography among all in the list, figure lower in comparison to someone like Scorsese or David Fincher who are still at the top of his game and are not shy to take the risks. Overall, the shortest way possible to summarize the method we utilized to rank down the list is asking this question to ourselves, “Who are the top directors in Hollywood?”

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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Extended Edition Will Be Rated R?!

Earlier this week we learned that the extended editions for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy will be getting a big screen theatrical release. Some people were excited while others were like, “Hell no!”

Well, there’s been an interesting development for one of the films that will be released. According to Ropes of Silicon, the extended edition version of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has been slapped with an R-rating by the MPAA.  The reason they give for the R-rating is “Some Violence,” which seems weird. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie get an R-rating for having “Some Violence.”

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