A Visual Beast With A Dark Bite Undoubtedly, one trait that a long running film franchise upholds, is the way in which it tries to re-imagine and betters itself, whilst keeping a familiar formula that audiences can engage and relate with. Over the many years of their own filmic existence, …
Zombies Meet Attack On Titan? More and more, whether it is within the medium of Video-Games, T.V. or films, the genre’s of horror and or dystopian-sci-fi, have indeed flooded our personal viewing space. Whether you like them or not, for the past 5 to 10 years, it’s arguable that we’ve …
Carrying On The Formula It’s not surprising really that Chris Columbus took up the directorial plinth once again to direct the 2nd instalment of the Harry Potter film series, since he profoundly did a rather successful yet simple job of creating the platform and mood for the first flick. In …
The Haunting Side Of The Caped-Crusader When I look back at my own upbringing throughout my childhood years, within the 1990’s, one of the things that was prominent and always available to watch, was Batman; whether it was the Tim Burton filmic pieces or the animated T.V. series which was …
Where The Magic Began I was only 7 years old when the first Harry Potter film was released into cinemas back in 2001 and I never would have thought back then that this now successful film franchise would stretch itself into my own upbringing from adolescence, into my late teens. …
Riding Through The Dark One thing that is intersting about film-makers is that the more they direct, the more they can express themselves in the smallest detail, whether it’s within the scenes themselves, or with the characters that we, as the viewer, have to see and engage with. Naturally, the …
A Fitting Swansong For Ghibli’s Final Bow Just recently, I did a one-off Blog Post about ending sequences and climaxes to films and how the best of these closing scenes, can simply manage to not only finish-off the contextual aspect of the narrative, but also provide meaning and emphasis towards …
X-Tinction If any of you remember back to my past review of X2, you would remember me saying how one of the hardest jobs for a director to do when it comes to constructing a sequel, is maintaining a consistency of quality from the first film into the sequel whilst adding …
Wasted Potential It’s not really surprising to state firstly that anime and video games over the years, whether it is within a Japanese animated film or T.V. show, that both entertainment mediums very much work in conjunction with each other. The obvious examples I have mentioned in the past, such …
Goin’ Up? While understandably, it is the likes of the British film directors of Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan and Ridley Scott that take up the lime-light in the media aspect of things, it would be criminal to not forget the lesser-known British directors who create pieces of art in their …
