Film

Trailers are, like the medium they are representing, both audio and visual in nature. While we may watch trailers for the snippets of the feature to come, it is the music that is often most successful in setting the tone. ...

Tank Girl was barely a blip on the radar when it was released in 1995. It flopped both with critics and audiences, only recouping in US$6 million of its $25 million production budget. Critics tended to agree on its faults: ...

Luc Besson can be a punishing director to follow. He has undoubtedly made some great films but one imagines his career will be defined by distinct eras of quality. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets falls firmly in ...

Trailers are like mass market elevator pitches for films. They are meant to hook the audience, telling them enough about a film to fuel interest but not so much that the entire plot of the film is ruined. Writing a ...

Kumail and Emily are a pair of quirky young people living in Chicago. He is trying to make it as a stand-up comedian, she is studying to become a therapist. As is the way with such things, they get together ...

How much can you really tell from a trailer? What indication as to whether or not a film will be any good really exists in these marketing tools? Many of us use trailers as a tool to decide whether or ...

400,000 soldiers stranded on a beach just across the coast from Britain. Germans forever hovering around the perimeter, aircraft picking them off, and the Navy unable to send enough ships to get everyone home. Christopher Nolan tackles one of the ...

Corporal McBurney is a wounded yankee soldier who throws himself on the mercy on Miss Martha’s secluded girls’ boarding school as the American Civil War rages just beyond the woods. McBurney is Initially treated with disdain by the young Southern ...

It is a very worthy cause to include diverse roles and representation within film. Representation has long been an issue in the film industry, from race to age to gender to sexual orientation, any minority you can think of has ...

The rebooted Planet of the Apes series has been a pleasure with each instalment. It hasn’t used its inevitable conclusion as an excuse for lazy plotting powered by ‘destiny’ nor laden itself down with incessant internal references. The films have ...