Silver-Lining Malek While there are a plethora of filmic genre’s that can easily make become lost within the exhibition itself, it’s inherent for a well constructed biographical picture, or biopic (sub-genre of drama thematic), to make us forget about own lives since we become so engrossed in the lives we …
Scattered Criminality Despite many audiences and critics’ qualms over the first Harry Potter spin-off feature being merely a prequel that no one asked for and didn’t really add any supplementary contextual value to J.K. Rowling’s lauded book & film franchise, what was was pleasing to see of Fantastic Beasts And Where …
Childhood Romanticism As much as it may seem that Makoto Shinkai, forever known now as the master animator/director in crafting the wonderfully emotional and detailed Your Name, is taking the ‘mantle’ as the top Japanese animation director from Hayao Miyazaki, who’s currently delving into animation in moulding a Studio Ghibli film …
Monolithic Familiarity While it’s easy to perceive that, beyond the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been a rather ‘resurgence’ in regards to one-off superhero films that respectively bring with them their own distinctive likenesses, whether it’s Deadpool’s inherently comical 4th wall-breaking or Logan’s compelling emotion within its characterisation, it can’t go unnoticed how avid …
Making The Impossible…Possible? What specific aspects of a contemporary action film determine box-office and critical success? Naturally, the said genre inherently receives the most attention due to the films of this craved-crux occupying a stupendous production budget for the outlandish and conventional sequences of explosions/stunts, and the star-studded names that …
Speaking To All Demographics As much as Pixar’s own boundless filmography includes animated features that directly appeal their own time towards the main target audience of children, by implementing a simple point-by-point story structure that’s easy to understand and characters that are ultimately fun and relatable, their real asset is …
Changing Of Th Guard Upon reflection, when Disney acquired Lucasfilms and the Star Wars franchise along with it in 2012 for an overwhelming sum of over $4 billion, no fan of the popular sci-fi film series or cinephile can deny their initial excitement for the saga’s return to the silver-screen. …
Downgrade!? While it’s not easy to perceive that producing/filming comedy-centric films is a hard feat in itself, considering this specific strain of films either hit-or-miss at the box-office, it’s not uncommon either to fathom comedy’s attempt in establishing franchises that try to compete with cinema’s elite in action and superheroes. …
Rising From The Ashes? For those who are commonly acquainted with Studio Ghibli’s plethora of animated features and the said studios recent circumstances involving film-making and co-operating with other niche animated projects, it’ll come as no surprise how discouraging it is to not see the famed Ghibli logo of Totoro …
The Moment I Became Infatuated!? Ever since I can remember, animation has always been something that has infatuated me. Whether it was the many numerous times I would wake-up on a Saturday morning as a little mini-Alex to watch either Pokémon or Batman: The Animated Series with my older brothers …
