There is a common perception that animated films are made strictly for children, and while this belief can be understood, the medium of animation provides a sense of freedom that live-action films can’t. Often times, animators use this to their advantage and tackle the provocative and existential questions that may be difficult to tackle in […]
Month: September 2016
Dead End Drive-In (1986) Arrow Video Blu-ray Review
New from Arrow Video is the Blu-ray release of Dead End Drive-In, a true cult classic and one of the best of the Ozploitation subgenre that mixes elements of Mad Max, The Cars That Ate Paris, Australian car culture, and crazy youth subcultures. Set in a dystopian future, this one deals with the government locking […]
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10 Bad Movies That Are Great If Viewed As Comedies
What makes a movie funny? Zany acting and characters? Over the top one liners? A ridiculous plot? It’s all of those things and more. However, sometimes these factors pop up in movies that aren’t meant to be funny at all, and make you laugh at it rather than with it. This is the most obvious […]
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10 Recent Movies You Will Likely Watch If Studying Film At University
Predicting which classic films will be shown throughout the course of your time studying film at university is quite easy as the same classic films are likely to appear time and again. Predicting which recent films will be part of a film studies course is a little more challenging. The point of this list is […]
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10 Famous Movies You Didn’t Know Were Based on Comic Books
It seems like all Hollywood is doing these days is churning out one new superhero flick after another. With the success of Marvel’s films in the MCU and the work coming out of the DCEU, very little is being made these days that doesn’t come from a preexisting intellectual property. While the market may now […]
Pulling Focus: Whiplash (2014)
Are you one of those single tear people? I saw Whiplash for the first time at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, in a packed house with director Damien Chazelle in attendance. I’d heard rumblings of distant thunder about the film earlier that year when it took Sundance by storm, and where it was dubbed […]