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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
Ghostly Trickery In looking retrospectively at the many films that resulted into my own upbringing and when these features were specifically released, it’s not hard to fathom that the year of 1999 was a rather impactful year for cinema-going. Indeed, with the likes of The Phantom Menace (the first Star Wars …
Symphonic Warfare In viewing the vast array of films that he’s so effortlessly and boldly directed to audiences that are either thrilled mentally or physically, it’s not hard to fathom that Christopher Nolan is an illusive film-maker that thrives in creating a surrealistic spectacle. From the dexterous narrative formalities of Momento to …
Back To Basics Given that the superhero genre-strain in this day-and-age has blossomed to become the contemporary staple of blockbuster film-making, which has subsequently seen the likes of Marvel and D.C. culminate their own concepts into their own over-arching expanding cinematic universes, its become clearer to notice how each individual …
A Comical Yet Poignant Creature Feature For those who are attuned to the ever-changing environment of the cinematic-industry, it will come to no surprise to perceive and understand that the Cannes Film festival is notorious for audiences and critics alike to bashfully jeer at a film-makers piece of work and …
Wheels Of Fortune: A Stylised Action-Musical That Thrills And Spills As much as it’s a necessity for any film to prioritise on the story-telling credentials and how the structure of the narrative naturally consolidates with the characters quirks and motivations, it can’t be underestimated how much cinematic style can simply …
