How Do We Live? Never would I have imagined back when I reviewed When Marnie Was There in 2014 that, in the current year of 2024, I would be reviewing yet another Studio Ghibli film directed once again by one of its renowned leaders and figure-heads in the form of …
Kaleidoscopic Animation Personified? When it announced itself onto the cinematic stage back in 2018, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse rather broke the mould of the sneered perception of how superhero films are critically received and rather acted as the radioactive arachnid that comes to bite our relatable hero; a spider-bite that …
Impact It’s fair to say that the sci-fi genre in film has evolved tremendously over the years, with significant events and technological advancements pushing the boundaries of storytelling and visual effects. From the very early days of silent films which pioneered its creative hubris to look at ideas and like-minded …
Guilty Gun-Fu Pleasure Throughout the years and history of world cinema, it’s interesting to fathom how many different countries, ideologies and specific individuals initiated era’s of defining cinema that we have all become synonymous with. This is particular intrinsic with the plethora of films that make-up the French New Wave …
Lost In The Wilderness From its inception, the action genre strain of films has always adapted and morphed into many different breeds of cinema. Indeed, Indeed, Whereas the aftermath of the Second World War inherently changed film-makers at the time to depict battles fought by the brave and noble, films …
“That’ll Do Pig” Upon reflecting the many different and peculiar films, shows and even books that I perceived in my days growing-up as the youngest of the family, what’s rather apparent to consider is how a lot of your perspective when viewing certain things is transfixed by anthropomorphic protagonists that …
“Lookie Lookie I Got Hookie” Whenever I cast my mind back to the 1990’s, an era of upbringing and fondness for myself and many others who maybe reading this review, there are only a certain few things and aspects that I remember which greatly imbue this overwhelming sense of nostalgia. …
Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice… In looking back at my preceding Film Review of Your Name published four year ago now, and what I subsequently went onto mention in regards to the landscape of the Japanese animated landscape seamlessly changing ever since Hayao Miyazaki seemed to had departed from the directing …
The First To Bridge The Gap?… Ever since the initial recognition of Japanese animation in the West within the era of the 1980’s, the anime and video-game medium have, in many ways, coalesced with one another to create a globalised outlook that has permeated our own understandings of known Japanese …
Fuelling The Fire Despite it being one the anime scene for a few years, it’s safely arguable to affirm how much Kohei Hirokoshi’s manga and Studio Bones’ series of My Hero Academia is a conception that’s gained both fan and critical acclaim and has steadily risen to point of it …
