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 …
A Revelation? Close your eyes, concentrate hard, what’s the first feature that you ever watched that truly captivated you to watch more of? For myself, this was George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope; a science-fiction adventure feature that, while it did seem dated and didn’t possess …
Hitchcock in Disguise? In having the pleasure in discoursing through the many differentiating intricacies of Japanese animation, whether it’s through my own thesis work on Hayao Miyazaki’s palpable economical and thematic influence on Western film-making or simply writing a review of a specific anime that has caught my personal attention, …
Better Than The Rest? Despite not reviewing the original trilogy of Star Wars as of yet in our journey to Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, one paramount aspect that all three of those said films contained which made their respective stories so engrossing and memorable to …
New Horizons? Despite the naturally adherent feelings from devotee’s towards the likes of Iron-Man, Thor, Captain Marvel and many other likeable protagonists that make-up the Marvel Cinematic Universe that have subsequently resulted in this specific audience to hail the MCU as one of the biggest cinematic feats in contemporary cinema, …
The Art Of Action As much as the superhero genre, specifically the Marvel strain of films, have rather saturated audiences with its abundance of choreographed heroics, the action genre is a category of features which was always morphed into many different styles; depending on the contextual circumstance. Indeed, Whereas the …
Wanting To Be The Very Best?! Ever since the initial recognition of Japanese animation in the West within the era of the 1980’s, both the anime and video-game mediums have, in many ways, coalesced with one another to create a globalised outlook that has permeated our own understandings of now …
CGIsm Why is the famed cinematic franchise of Star Wars so loved? This is a question which I believe possesses numerous answers and opinions all of which are appreciated. Whereas others love them because of their tuned affinity in deconstructing the values and noticeable aspects of stories – of which we’ll get …
