20 new Genres from the last 20 years
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- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.A Rom-Zom-Com, Edgar Wright is the king of redefining a genre
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Quentin Tarantino started his own genre called Tarantino films. Although Reservoir Dogs was the first, Pulp Fiction was the real beginning.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason FlemyngDexter FletcherNick MoranEddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.Starting off the trend of English gangsta movies, this film introduced the modern gritty East End to cinema audiences
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.It brought grandiose 3D into a genre all by itself. There might have been 3D films before but Avatar started the obsession.
- DirectorMichael MooreStarsMichael MooreCharlton HestonMarilyn MansonFilmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.Modern documentary was born with Michael Moore's film and was probably the last time he wasn't irritating to boot
- DirectorAdam McKayStarsWill FerrellChristina ApplegateSteve CarellIn the 1970s, an anchorman's stint as San Diego's top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor.Old School came first, but Anchor man was the start of the flawed man comedy that Ferrell has made his own
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine KeenerA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.How can you describe the genre of Charlie Kauffman, surrealism isn't new but his brand of writing took modern surrealism to a new height
- DirectorDennis DuganStarsAdam SandlerChristopher McDonaldJulie BowenAfter his grandmothers house is repossessed by the IRS, bad tempered hockey player takes his talents to golf to earn the big bucks and get his grandmothers house back.The start of the man child comedy that Judd Apatow has taken to a new level
- DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.The start of the computer animation revolution that has spawned so many blockbuster movies it's unprecedented. Also still one of the best
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsJohnny DeppWinona RyderDianne WiestThe solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.Depp and Burton for the first time on the bigscreen. 7 films later it still never gets old
- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsMike MyersDana CarveyRob LoweTwo slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.Saturday Night Live on the big screen. Living totside of the US I'd never even heard of SNL at this stage but this showed you could take a sketch and make it in to a feature
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostMartin FreemanAn overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.Edgar Wright manages to show a scene from another film and replicate it 20 minutes later, creating not satire but comedy edged homage to cop movies both respectful and satirical
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.It's easy to just include a new director and say they have a style of their own but most people know what they'll get from a Coen brothers pic, even those who aren't massive film fans
- DirectorAng LeeStarsChow Yun-FatMichelle YeohZiyi ZhangA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.Foreign language films, not a new genre. But mass appeal of an essentially philosophical martial arts films was a first. Many films have followed proving you can be successful out of English
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanBill MurrayOlivia WilliamsA teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.A personal choice but I think Wes Anderson has brought a unique vision to the screen that all started with Bottle Rocket but truly arrived with Rushmore
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.Yes it's sci-fi but The Matrix had more new things on the screen than any film since Citizen Caine
- DirectorKevin SmithStarsBrian O'HalloranJeff AndersonMarilyn GhigliottiA day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.Stoner comedies have more or less come and gone but think of how many films have gone in between and it all started off in black and white in a little video shack
- CreatorTrey ParkerMatt StoneBrian GradenStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneIsaac HayesFollows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.Biting satire has been done, but this big screen outing of a popular tv show made it's money back in the opening weekend and made people think you could take a short format and turn it in to a film. Bring on Family Guy the Movie
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.Fantasy films have come and gone but never to such an effect. Big box office, big kudos and big emotions combine to make this the start of grown up fantasy (not including David Bowie vehicles)
- DirectorDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua LeonardThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.The first internet marketed movie has a lot to answer for but also introduced what word of mouth hype can do for a title.