“I am trying to keep my eyes wide open” – Ashitaka, Princess Mononoke (1997)
Film review: Crazy, Stupid, Love – A personal favourite
The year 2011 saw one of the best movies of its category come out: Crazy, Stupid, Love. The romantic comedy directed by Glenn Ficara and John Requa hits home for most of its audience. But what exactly made this movie so on point?
Film review: A Star Is Born – Lives and deaths of the stars
Bradley Cooper’s directing debut was also Lady Gaga’s acting debut, in 2018 version of A Star Is Born that many people expected for a while.
Film review: Venom – The return of Spidey’s slimy nemesis
What if Alien was not a creature but a slimy organism retrieved on Mars by a crazy scientist that thinks humanity is finished? Welcome to Marvel’s last production, Venom, with less Avengers but more Tom Hardy.
A genre, a film: Irish cinema – Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy (1997)
Neil Jordan’s release of The Butcher Boy in 1997 certainly shook its entire viewership with its bold rawness and the problems it exposed on screen. Freely using Patrick McCabe’s original work…
A genre, a film: the road-movie – Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise (1991)
In 1991 came out Thelma and Louise, a Ridley Scott directed movie telling the story of two young women trying to escape their daily life and ending up as outlaws.
A genre, a film: the Third Cinema – Fernando Meirelles’ City of God (2002)
Far away from Hollywood, at the beginning of the sixties, South American directors worked on creating a new kind of cinema. They named it ‘Third Cinema’ after the 1969 manifesto ‘Towards a Third Cinema’ written by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino.
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