Stamping A New Future For Japanese Animation? Ever since one of the great conjurer’s of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, departed from the directing high-chair in 2013, after making what was meant to be his last feature film in The Wind Rises, the most loyal of audiences have been pursuing a successor for …
A Visual Head-Scratcher As much as we’ve seen Western Animation thrive in the cinematic spotlight in recent years that’s pushed the boundaries of the filmic medium by introducing innovative technologies and story-telling values of new and old, it’s arguable to state that animation deriving from the East, specifically in Japan, …
Marvel’s Turn Towards The Mystical Ever since Jon Favreau’s Iron Man came into the cinematic fray eight years ago now, Marvel’s ambitions have consistently coincided with the success that many of these hero features have upheld. Despite their being a few films that have strayed away from being critically acclaimed, in contrast …
An Angst Vampire Flick With No Real Bite I don’t know if this runs true for everyone else reading, but whenever a film, specifically a book adaptation, gets dubbed as a “pop-culture phenomenon” or a “pop-classic”, there are two thoughts of thinking that crop up. Indeed, while at first we’re …
All Good Things, Must Come To An End While it is already a long time since its origin, next year will mark 20 years when a story about a young boy-wizard, growing up and prevailing against darkness, took shape in the form of a book for many children and adults …
Contrasting Cinematic Norm And Expectations In this era when there are more prequels, sequels and re-hashes of old and familiar features that necessitates a pre-response of audiences grumbling in disgruntlement, finding a film and a director that is entirely original is hard to come across. For sure, we do have …
Opening At The Close: The Beginning Of The End Over the course of cinema history, particularly in recent years and in this modern day-and-age, there is a tendency for films to be split into multiple parts; whether it’s for creative purposes or for financial gain. Of course, with this film …
Getting Back On Track? Indeed, the way’s in which events unfolded in the last tale of The Order of the Phoenix, was possibly the worst in this lauded film series. It was a shame to witness a film that didn’t bring over tropes from previous films, and instead, relied on approaches that …
Ghibli In Disguise? Shinchiro Watanabe, Mamoru Oshii, Osumu Tezuka, Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai, Isao Takahata and of course, Hayao Miyazaki. These are the many different Japanese animation directors that have each laid the ground-work for what Japanese animation represents in the West and how much they’ve all changed the way …
Riddikulus: The ‘Middle-Movie’ Syndrome For sure, the events that were fleshed out in the previous film of The Goblet of Fire planted Harry, his friends and other significant characters into a new and dark scenario; a scenario which see’s Lord Voldemort fully return to take plight onto the wizarding world and Harry, …
