A Compendium Of Poignancy, Colour And Irony There’s no denying that films of a festive and jolly nature don’t particularly get featured for any of the award ceremonies that proceed afterwards. However, as humbug as many critics like to be when judging and determining which Christmas film should be the …
Acting Craftsmanship More and more, not only is it foreseeable to perceive how Netflix, along with other more notable steaming services, has become the place for non cinema-goers to watch old and contemporary features, it’s also become an established platform that has graced our viewing gaze with original T.V. and …
The End Of The Road? While it can’t go unnoticed how many ‘popular’ anime’s of the past and recent history warrant blaring problems of their own, as seen within one of ‘the big three’ in Noriyuki Abe’s Bleach which, although established a rather intriguing premise for a shōnen in its first sixty …
Third Time’s A Charm As much as it’s been highlighted in many various preceding reviews of Marvel superhero films that the aforementioned genre has indeed become the staple of blockbuster film-making, which has resulted in many cinephiles arguing and squabbling over its precedence and how they’re viewed as features that either entertain …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
