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 …
Cinematic Supremacy It’s been six years since we saw a group of individually likeable superhero’s first congregate with each other in the form of Avengers Assemble that was as good as the audience’s hype for it suggested. From that time, Marvel have continued to assert their cinematic dominance by producing …
Animation Craftmanship As arguable as it is to dismiss this point of view, stop-motion animation – which, unlike computer and traditional hand-drawn cel animation, utilises real objects shot frame by frame, with tiny adjustments made in-between – is a medium that has defied crude expectations and is a mode of …
