“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. …
Emotionalism And Growth What’s feasible to comprehend on this current generation of anime, in particular the shonen strain of shows, is how varied the aforesaid sub-genre has become and how much more accepted it is to generally watch series that are formulaic, yet self-aware in presenting motifs that audiences can …
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 …
Blink…And You’ll Miss It! Verisimilitude, apart from being a long word that feels fancy to say (especially if you’re a Film Student *wink *wink), it’s a term that describe sa films appearance and its overwhelming sense of truth or reality. This isn’t wholly about reality and everything we see in …
Too Many Hands In The Cookie Jar… For the second time in my own existence, a conclusion to the Skywalker Saga (as it’s been recently touted) comes to silver-screen in all its sci-fi splendour once again; a finale of which a new and divisive trilogy has been crafted. It only …
Lucas’ Final Frontier… In similar vein to a three-act structure of a story book, a filmic trilogy equally represents three parts to a story as a collective whole. When done properly and to the highest degree, a trilogy can very much enhance a story/franchise and give it more depth than …
To Infinity And Beyond? As often discussed a great many times on this blog, in relation to films that have naturally proceeded another and have continued a story that many cinema-goers admired the first time around, one of the hardest feats a franchise has to uphold it terms of its …
