Wheels Of Fortune: A Stylised Action-Musical That Thrills And Spills As much as it’s a necessity for any film to prioritise on the story-telling credentials and how the structure of the narrative naturally consolidates with the characters quirks and motivations, it can’t be underestimated how much cinematic style can simply …
Patience Is A Virtue In similar vain to how popular film franchises have to construct sequels to be just as compelling and enthralling as the preceding features that made a positive impact, T.V. series also have to establish a precedent where the particular story arc has to go down a …
A Bang Of Comedy And Absurdist Cinema There are only a select few films that can instinctively create more anxiety and tension than the sense of being trapped in a small space. Even if you’re not a claustrophobe, almost everyone can relate to that inner panic or high rigidity that …
Paradise Lost? In viewing a variety of may different filmic franchises that have come and graced the silver screen, one of the most worrisome aspects for cinematic series to oversee is the continuity and fluidity of the context. As much as the directors that come into these popular franchises do …
Prudent For The Sound Of Silence Following on from Hayao Miyzaki’s directorial bow with his film of The Wind Rises in 2013 to the the famed studio’s visualised swan song of Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There of last year, it looked as though Japan’s highly praised Studio Ghibli had run it’s creative course. …
Charmingly Spooky It’s always difficult for any film-maker to impose their distinctive filmic aesthetics to a popular genre type which revels in films that essentially implement a formula and other cinematic tropes over and over again. While there are many features within the genre types of horror, and especially superhero …
Misconstrued Expectancy As a new trailer for a highly-anticipated film gets released every so often, it’s not surprising to notice the subsequent hype that expectantly follows. Whereas the ‘hype’ of a particular feature can be justified through many different circumstances, including preceding films that received praise from audience members and …
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It If there’s one thing that’s hard to come by in this cinematic age, it’s to watch a film that has a unique sense of authenticity and spontaneity to it. With their being masses amounts of unnecessary teaser and theatrical trailers for the bigger …
An Americanisation That Aims To Charm In viewing many adaptations over the years that have derived from many different levels of literature, there’s a big difference between the books that people read and films that purposefully aim to entertain in terms of the audience. Whereas, arguably, books have distinguishable levels …
A Psychedelic Visualisation That Is Fuelled To Torment As much as it may seem rude to even suggest at booing or heckling a film you have just watched at your local cinema, it’s somewhat common at the Cannes Film Festival, especially in recent years, for critics and ordinary viewing audiences …
