At some point in the past few decades, Hollywood has seemingly lost the ability to make purely entertaining epics, and where every film of enormous scope feels like a major event that comes around very rarely, audiences often going years without witnessing a true spectacle that isn’t somehow tied to the recent influx of superhero…

Every year, when confronted with a flurry of remakes, reboots and revivals, someone will doubtlessly express the fact that Hollywood is running out of ideas, and that blockbusters are not allowed to be original anymore, or else they will struggle to turn a profit. Obviously, this is not a delusion, since we’ve seen so many…

As one of history’s greatest minds, Albert Einstein had many incredible ideas. One of his most famous statements comes in his 1935 collection of writings, The World As I See It, where the iconoclast boldly states “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the…

There comes a point where one needs to ask how many times can the same story be told before it becomes stale? In the past two decades, we have been witness to no less than three different instances of attempting to retell the Batman story, with this number growing even larger if we consider animated…

There are two genres of films that I think have managed to achieve the status of showcasing the full extent of what the human body is capable of doing. The first are the musicals produced during the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the lives of Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and a wealth of…

Even before he came to be known for his more nihilistic dark comedies that were propelled by their sense of effortless cool and roots in absurdism, Seijun Suzuki was consistently playing with cinema. In the first five years of his career. Suzuki directed a staggering twenty-four films, each one a distinct work of genre storytelling…

The history of Japanese cinema can be traced to a few different groupings of filmmakers, who normally tend to be associated to each other depending on their particular style, the stories their films told, or even the specific time in which they were working. It’s a communal approach that made Japanese cinema some of the…

In a career stretching from the formative years of the silent era, to just before the apex of New Hollywood, John Ford redefined cinema in his own way. It takes a very special filmmaker to win the endless admirations of the likes of Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman, who could legitimately lay claim to being…

The wuxia genre is one that has flourished into one of the most beloved forms of filmmaking, albeit one that can occasionally be considered a bit overwhelming to those looking to get into this form of entertainment, as the vast wealth of entries into the martial arts genre being amongst the densest in all of…

Perhaps a cynical view, but there are very few instances, if any, of the terms “video game” and “film” going well together – as the past has shown us on countless occasions, mainstream attempts to bring beloved gaming franchises to the screen have rarely ever been successful, with the majority of adaptations being middling at…