Obligatory Nostalgia Originality. This is a fundamental aspect of creativity and independence which has not only come to shape the way in which film and television creators fabricate a unique concept, but is a facet that influences the way in which we perceive artistic prowess. As much as feature films …
Overcompensating It should come as no surprise to those who are reading, that a sequels purpose, whether it’s from a film production, a televised series or an acclaimed novel, is to provide a continuation of the story that was initially established in preceding works in a manner that not only …
Astray From The Fray: A Contemporary Classic That Conforms To Visual Splendour In viewing the recent saga-hits of The Hunger Games and the Planet of the Apes series of films to the more renowned stand-alone features such as Akira and even the more subtle and profound Never Let Me Go, it’s clear to fathom that the genre …
More Than Meets The Eye If there’s one genre of Japanese animation that engulfs the viewing gaze of the West and, as such, has become the perception of general anime viewing, it is that of the Shōnen animation series. In being primarily aimed at the pre-teen and teenage boy demographic, Shōnen animated …
“Vengeance Blackens The Soul, Bruce…” As stated in many film reviews that have come before, if there’s one specific franchise or certain televised show that epitomised my own up-bringing in the 90’s, it would that of Batman; more specifically, the Batman Animated Series. In amalgamating the infamous and unique Dark Deco …
An Artist’s Cry It’ll come to no surprise by those who are affiliated with the film-makers past cinematic endeavours and film-making style, that Darren Aronofsky revels in constructing luminous pieces of art-form that invites our own gaze into his own imagination. In being inspired by the contextual and editing trickery …
You’ll Float Too From the various and menacing portrayals of The Joker from the ‘Batman’ franchise, to even Charles Dickens’ serialised novel of The Pickwick Papers which features a deprived and and unemployed jester, clowns are often characterised by their impish mischievousness and amusing but dangerous antics. Indeed, from the recent insurgence …
Worth The Wait? Aside from the arguable quarrels that the superhero genre faces in this day and age, in relation to the genre conceivably saturating the cinematic industry with its vast array of films and how much monetary gain these features receive, one of the best things to come with …
A Few Sandwiches Short Of A Picnic Alongside the vast array of superhero features and reboots of film title that are nonsensical and stagnant, live-action anime adaptations are slowly but surely becoming the latest cinematic trend at this moment in time. From the past failures of Dragonball Evolution and Speed Racer, fans of …
Down The Rabbit Hole From the modernity of high-concept blockbuster films that have displayed scenes of characters battling their psychological wits against each other on the monochrome board through to Ingmar Bergman’s arthouse feature of the Seventh Seal which is arguably the most notorious example of this board game being shown on …
