Prudent For The Sound Of Silence Following on from Hayao Miyzaki’s directorial bow with his film of The Wind Rises in 2013 to the the famed studio’s visualised swan song of Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There of last year, it looked as though Japan’s highly praised Studio Ghibli had run it’s creative course. …
Charmingly Spooky It’s always difficult for any film-maker to impose their distinctive filmic aesthetics to a popular genre type which revels in films that essentially implement a formula and other cinematic tropes over and over again. While there are many features within the genre types of horror, and especially superhero …
Misconstrued Expectancy As a new trailer for a highly-anticipated film gets released every so often, it’s not surprising to notice the subsequent hype that expectantly follows. Whereas the ‘hype’ of a particular feature can be justified through many different circumstances, including preceding films that received praise from audience members and …
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It If there’s one thing that’s hard to come by in this cinematic age, it’s to watch a film that has a unique sense of authenticity and spontaneity to it. With their being masses amounts of unnecessary teaser and theatrical trailers for the bigger …
An Americanisation That Aims To Charm In viewing many adaptations over the years that have derived from many different levels of literature, there’s a big difference between the books that people read and films that purposefully aim to entertain in terms of the audience. Whereas, arguably, books have distinguishable levels …
A Psychedelic Visualisation That Is Fuelled To Torment As much as it may seem rude to even suggest at booing or heckling a film you have just watched at your local cinema, it’s somewhat common at the Cannes Film Festival, especially in recent years, for critics and ordinary viewing audiences …
Atmospheric Suspense Filled With Vivid And Disturbing Combinations With each defining science-fiction film that has come and gone over the history of cinema, there has always been distinguishing motifs that has made the much recognisable films stand-out from the vast array of others. Whether it’s the adventurist inspirations that the …
Irony Knows No Bounds If there’s one strain of adaptations that Western film-making hasn’t fully grasped and delivered to audiences who are either familiarised or unaware of the original source material, it’s the live-action anime conversions that stain not only the reputation of the proceeding feature/T.V. series, but also our …
Anime For The Masses? If there’s one thing to note in relation to the films that are shown today and the many different film-making practises that are utilised, it’s how much directors ‘pay homage’ to other works that have come to print their mark on this lauded artistic medium. As …
A Fitting Conclusion To A Contemporary Cinematic Figure Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, Christian Bale, J.K. Simmons, Heath Ledger and of course, Robert Downey Jr. What do all of these actors have in common with each other? They’re all actors, in their respective roles, that have portrayed superhero related characters to …
