Into the Survival-Horror Fray For decades, Hollywood has been trying to solve the video-game-to-film puzzle, with wildly mixed results. From Super Mario Bros. and Mortal Kombat through the various Resident Evil movies and more recent successes such as The Last of Us, filmmakers have repeatedly wrestled with the same problem: how do you turn an interactive experience …
Bountiful and Threadbare Star Wars has always been a galaxy of extremes. At its best, it is exhilarating, funny, emotional and genuinely magical — a universe where dogfights, lightsabers, strange creatures and unlikely friendships can exist side-by-side without feeling out of place. At its worst, however, Star Wars can become …
Irony Abounds… Live-action animation hybrids have always occupied a strange corner of cinema. From the technical wizardry of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to the cartoon chaos of Space Jam, and more recently the big-screen rehabilitation of characters like Sonic the Hedgehog, Hollywood has repeatedly attempted to convince us that animated characters and flesh-and-blood …
A Generous Gesture There are legacy sequels, and then there are acts of faith. For every Top Gun: Maverick that justifies its existence, there’s a dozen revivals content to coast on warm memories and familiar faces. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender arrives carrying an even heavier burden. The original animated …
Back To Basics? Few superheroes have enjoyed a cinematic legacy as rich—or as fiercely debated—as Spider-Man. From Sam Raimi’s operatic trilogy, which elevated the superhero genre into emotionally resonant blockbuster territory, to Marc Webb’s more introspective interpretation and the kinetic exuberance of Tom Holland’s Marvel Cinematic Universe tenure, each incarnation …
Flashbacks Galore? Truly, gone are the years now where the general audience view the Japanese Animated medium as a visual outlook that is ‘niche’. While notable works by Studio Ghibli, especially in the past and more recently earmarked by Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, have long paved the …
A New Hope? Come the end of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, a superhero feature that concluded the MCU’s grandiose Infinity Saga, there’s no denying that much discourse around the superhero genre has been centred around this idea of ‘superhero fatigue’; an inclination of tiredness that cinema-goers experience …
Road Rage When thinking about when someone states to have seen a “car film”, that aforesaid term in reality could/can mean many different films all in one. Indeed, when truly thinking deeply about it, “car films” is in itself an umbrella term for cinematic features that involve the vehicle itself. …
Time Didn’t Heal Anything?! For myself, when it comes to viewing cinema/film and all the genre’s of the said artistic form that there is to offer, it’s fair to state how little of interest I did have in relation to the horror genre. Indeed, while it can’t be denied that …
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