Diego Pacheco

5 days ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

For an actor, winning an Oscar is perhaps the most exceptional honor that they can hope to achieve in the film industry. However, some Oscar-winning performances are undeniably better than others. Indeed, throughout history, there have been certain pieces of acting that have proved themselves worthy of the Academy's love, and which have gone down in history as some of the greatest performances of all time.

6 days ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

For many years, the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli has not just been the leading anime filmmaker in its country, but one of the spearheads of global animation throughout modern history. There are plenty of elements that make a Studio Ghibli masterpiece irresistibly magical, and the fact that pretty much each of the studio's movies has an exceptional score is certainly no small contributing factor.

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Film criticism gets a bad rep, but throughout the history of this beautiful art form, it has proved to be a noble and incredibly important profession. Truly great film critics have a unique capacity to drill deep into the core of a film and dissect it insightfully and eloquently, evaluate the history of cinema and contribute to its study, and prove that film analysis is just as meaningful as any other kind of artistic analysis.

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

The legendary Chicago film critic Roger Ebert is perhaps the most popular of all time in his profession, and for good reason. He had a uniquely insightful way of thinking about movies and a uniquely intimate way of speaking and writing about them, which made him a trusted voice for cinephiles—which, over a decade after his death, he still is. However, avid and omnivorous of a cinephile though he was, Ebert was naturally not a huge fan of every genre in existence.

1 week ago | collider.com | Diego Pacheco

Born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1942 and dedicating pretty much all of his career to film criticism in Chicago, Roger Ebert is perhaps the most legendary, iconic, and beloved American film critic in history. He wasn't, however, free of error. A few of his reviews, particularly of genre movies like sci-fi, haven't aged the best, meaning that a lot of the sci-fi films that Ebert strongly disliked back in his day are remembered today as either underrated gems or bona fide classics.