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, …
The Classic Case of Over Doing It I think it’s fair to say that the year of 2016, so far, for DC Comics, hasn’t particularly gone well to their expectations, as far as their cinematic prowess goes. Both Batman V. Superman, which everyone predicted to be one of the big box-office …
A Slight Bump On The Wizarding Road? Being that the previous filmic entry in the form of The Prisoner of Azkaban, directed by Alfonso Cuaron, was the first Harry Potter film, in that time, to have delved into the more ‘dark’ nature of the stories through excessive yet successful visual means, …
A Visual Spectacular Mish-Mash Of Spielberg and King!? It is quite a weird thing to say that Netflix, the quintessential streaming service now above the likes of Hulu and Amazon Prime, in this day and age, is really the place to go to now when it comes to simply sitting …
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, …
