Back To His Familiar Ways? From almost the very beginnings of cinema, the notion of ‘stardom’, within the many actors and actresses that have come and gone to grace the silver-screen, has been one of the medium’s defining characteristics. In this day-and-age, it serves to be a construct that plays …
Ga Ga Over La La? A Full-Impact Dazzlement That Charms And Commends Classical Cinema Ever since its first teaser trailer that appeared many months ago and its inception at the Venice Film Festival, Damien Chazelle’s latest feature of La La Land had been spouted and received by avid film-goers as a film …
A Dark Euphoria That Tickles Expectations Out of the many popular film franchises there have been in cinema history, there is no other film series other than the Star Wars pieces of films that have conjured up not only sci-fi classics that all demographics have and still connect with on …
Magic Incarnate: A Fun And Enchanting Beginning As hard as it is to see, since there have been many commendable film franchises that have come and gone, Warner Bros’. lucrative and lauded franchise of ‘Harry Potter’, stands today to be the 2nd highest grossing franchise in film history. With eight …
Stamping A New Future For Japanese Animation? Ever since one of the great conjurer’s of animation, Hayao Miyazaki, departed from the directing high-chair in 2013, after making what was meant to be his last feature film in The Wind Rises, the most loyal of audiences have been pursuing a successor for …
A Visual Head-Scratcher As much as we’ve seen Western Animation thrive in the cinematic spotlight in recent years that’s pushed the boundaries of the filmic medium by introducing innovative technologies and story-telling values of new and old, it’s arguable to state that animation deriving from the East, specifically in Japan, …
Marvel’s Turn Towards The Mystical Ever since Jon Favreau’s Iron Man came into the cinematic fray eight years ago now, Marvel’s ambitions have consistently coincided with the success that many of these hero features have upheld. Despite their being a few films that have strayed away from being critically acclaimed, in contrast …
An Angst Vampire Flick With No Real Bite I don’t know if this runs true for everyone else reading, but whenever a film, specifically a book adaptation, gets dubbed as a “pop-culture phenomenon” or a “pop-classic”, there are two thoughts of thinking that crop up. Indeed, while at first we’re …
All Good Things, Must Come To An End While it is already a long time since its origin, next year will mark 20 years when a story about a young boy-wizard, growing up and prevailing against darkness, took shape in the form of a book for many children and adults …
Contrasting Cinematic Norm And Expectations In this era when there are more prequels, sequels and re-hashes of old and familiar features that necessitates a pre-response of audiences grumbling in disgruntlement, finding a film and a director that is entirely original is hard to come across. For sure, we do have …
