Are You Not Entertained? I don’t know whether I speak for a great many of you reading this, but I know for myself that Ridley Scott’s 2001 historic-epic of Gladiator – over time – has slowly become one of my most favoured films to watch over and over again. Upon …
Animated Transcendence For as long as I can remember, never have I waited and wanted for a follow-up series to be released than that of Fortiche’s and Netflix’s Arcane. Not only did the first season inquisitively present a promising yet vivid world which felt it had existed far before the …
How Do We Live? Never would I have imagined back when I reviewed When Marnie Was There in 2014 that, in the current year of 2024, I would be reviewing yet another Studio Ghibli film directed once again by one of its renowned leaders and figure-heads in the form of …
Kaleidoscopic Animation Personified? When it announced itself onto the cinematic stage back in 2018, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse rather broke the mould of the sneered perception of how superhero films are critically received and rather acted as the radioactive arachnid that comes to bite our relatable hero; a spider-bite that …
Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Fire There’s no denying that, once-upon-a-time, My Hero Academia was the eye-catching Shōnen babe that proudly stood tall amongst its other Shōnen sweethearts due to not only its simple-yet-effective super-heroic milieu, but how it insolently boasts its inviting premise in manner that …
Impact It’s fair to say that the sci-fi genre in film has evolved tremendously over the years, with significant events and technological advancements pushing the boundaries of storytelling and visual effects. From the very early days of silent films which pioneered its creative hubris to look at ideas and like-minded …
Rewarded Revenge Alongside the medium’s way of enticing me with its fantastical flourishes, expression and fluency in the unique animation style it so proudly bestows, another manner in which anime has always appealed to me is its craft in story-telling and how there are a plethora of different sub-genre of …
Guilty Gun-Fu Pleasure Throughout the years and history of world cinema, it’s interesting to fathom how many different countries, ideologies and specific individuals initiated era’s of defining cinema that we have all become synonymous with. This is particular intrinsic with the plethora of films that make-up the French New Wave …
Rekindled Love? Truth be told, within recent years of viewing different films and television series, my once keen fidelity into scoping and watching an anime series that immediately catches my attention isn’t as potent as it should be. As much as the long-running anime series of Attack On Titan, Demon …
Lost In The Wilderness From its inception, the action genre strain of films has always adapted and morphed into many different breeds of cinema. Indeed, Indeed, Whereas the aftermath of the Second World War inherently changed film-makers at the time to depict battles fought by the brave and noble, films …
