Tag: fiction

  • The 10 best films featuring cannibalism

    While Hannibal Lecter is no doubt cinema’s most infamous cannibal, we don’t see him actually chow down in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Cannibalism is one of the most taboo subjects for movies to explore, but there have been a few gutsy enough to venture into the people-eating side of things. Caveat: these are…

  • The 10 best films about aging

    Everyone gets old, at least the most fortunate of us do, but Hollywood doesn’t have a robust track record for movies about aging. That’s not particularly surprising for a medium that likes things young and beautiful, but it is disappointing. The forays into aging tend to be cutesy or depressing. There’s not much middle ground.…