Making The Impossible…Possible? What specific aspects of a contemporary action film determine box-office and critical success? Naturally, the said genre inherently receives the most attention due to the films of this craved-crux occupying a stupendous production budget for the outlandish and conventional sequences of explosions/stunts, and the star-studded names that …
Speaking To All Demographics As much as Pixar’s own boundless filmography includes animated features that directly appeal their own time towards the main target audience of children, by implementing a simple point-by-point story structure that’s easy to understand and characters that are ultimately fun and relatable, their real asset is …
Changing Of Th Guard Upon reflection, when Disney acquired Lucasfilms and the Star Wars franchise along with it in 2012 for an overwhelming sum of over $4 billion, no fan of the popular sci-fi film series or cinephile can deny their initial excitement for the saga’s return to the silver-screen. …
Downgrade!? While it’s not easy to perceive that producing/filming comedy-centric films is a hard feat in itself, considering this specific strain of films either hit-or-miss at the box-office, it’s not uncommon either to fathom comedy’s attempt in establishing franchises that try to compete with cinema’s elite in action and superheroes. …
Rising From The Ashes? For those who are commonly acquainted with Studio Ghibli’s plethora of animated features and the said studios recent circumstances involving film-making and co-operating with other niche animated projects, it’ll come as no surprise how discouraging it is to not see the famed Ghibli logo of Totoro …
The Moment I Became Infatuated!? Ever since I can remember, animation has always been something that has infatuated me. Whether it was the many numerous times I would wake-up on a Saturday morning as a little mini-Alex to watch either Pokémon or Batman: The Animated Series with my older brothers …
Cinematic Supremacy It’s been six years since we saw a group of individually likeable superhero’s first congregate with each other in the form of Avengers Assemble that was as good as the audience’s hype for it suggested. From that time, Marvel have continued to assert their cinematic dominance by producing …
Animation Craftmanship As arguable as it is to dismiss this point of view, stop-motion animation – which, unlike computer and traditional hand-drawn cel animation, utilises real objects shot frame by frame, with tiny adjustments made in-between – is a medium that has defied crude expectations and is a mode of …
Where’s Wally? From its compelling ability to reflect our world back at us through to the outright spectacle of the latest effects, which makes us perceive a particular feature in a different light, the realm of cinema has always drawn-off from the advancement of technology. From the fantastical star gate …
Earnest Film-Making An all encompassing genre hybrid that merges elements of tragedy or melancholia with sequences of comical levity, comedy-drama features, or “dramedy” for short, is one of the more recognisable filmic amalgamations that can easily sway or disdain your experience. While there are films in the forms of The Breakfast …
