Category: Film
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Film journalism has always been an integral concomitant within film paraphernalia. It has existed since the socio-technological upheaval caused by the rise of motion pictures and allowed cinephiles to refine their understandings of their favourite cinemas — what goes behind the scenes, directorial and cinematographic art, or just another list of fresh, upcoming productions —…
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Imagine a scenario with me for a moment: You’re a single, unarmed woman travelling out of town for a job interview. You rent an Airbnb for the night, and when you arrive — in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night — your key code doesn’t work, the lights are on inside, and…
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If David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills was a bold swing of a kitchen knife, seeking out sociopolitical depths, then the capper to his trilogy, Halloween Ends, is one massive stab in the dark. The first in the franchise since Rob Zombie’s Halloween II to propose any remote change to its formula, Ends is its own…
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After nearly 30 years, the black flame candle is lit again, welcoming the Sanderson Sisters back onto our screens in Anne Fletcher’s Hocus Pocus 2. With the original 1993 Hocus Pocus becoming a cult classic, the bar was set incredibly high for Hocus Pocus 2. The film begins with a flashback to 1653…
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Since the release of India’s first talkie, Alam Ara (1931), music has perpetually sustained its position as an outstanding candidate for entertainment and refined aesthetics. It has witnessed several revolutions within Indian Cinema and – as a dynamic element of the Indian film language – has been subject to countless transformations, with the first-ever occurrence…
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‘The biggest star in the world . . . and she’s not in Beverly Hills’, as David Cort titled his celebratory dedication in Theatre Arts Magazine (1952) to prophesise the superstardom of this dedicatee: a vivacious, versatile actor from Bombay, India, who would go to become one of the most iconic and cherished actors/superstars India…
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Anybody witnessing Ana de Armas’ talent for the first time in the upcoming chronicle-film, Blonde, in which she is set to star as Norma Jeane/Marilyn Monroe, is late to the party – she’s already one of Hollywood’s most successful actors. Miss de Armas has been the lead actress in several American box-office hits, such as…
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Packed fill with family-fun adventures, the Noughties boomed in films aimed at all ages, along with a couple for older adults as well.
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From Sweeney Todd to Mamma Mia, Noughties’ musicals just always seem to hit differently.
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After Disney’s Renaissance period fizzled out by the end of the 1990s, the stage was set for two newer animation studios to wage war at the cinema: Pixar and DreamWorks. One focused on emotionally galvanising films for children and adults alike, whilst the other pioneered cracking soundtracks, screenplays infused with pop-culture gags and a talking…
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Musicals were a genre that thrived in the Noughties, and two writers focus on the musicals that defined the decade for them.
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14 years after its release, Iron Man would later define the MCU and set the standard for superhero cinema to come.
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Stories of great kings, warriors, demigods, and the paranormal heavily influenced the beginnings of Indian Cinema, soon becoming one of its endemic and prevalent thematic trope/subject. The release of Raja Harishchandra (1913) paved the way for the coalescence of similar narratives that soon were categorised as mythologicals and historicals, simultaneously inspiring an upsurge of individuals…
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Ellie Griffiths reviews the adaptation of Delia Owens novel, Where The Crawdads Sing.