Jane Campion has been a household name for such a long time that it’s easy to take for granted just how spectacularly rare her success really is. If even now female directors still struggle to get their movies made, let alone have them find the same level of attention dedicated to them as the work […]
Guillermo Del Toro is one of the last few remnants of a dying breed in Hollywood. He’s a populist director of immense personality and with a very distinct personal style, who primarily makes expensive commercial movies but is still able to imbue such projects with his unique touch. GDT is a filmmaker in the tradition […]
One of the key factors that makes the horror genre so enthralling to watch is its ability to evolve over time. In the 30’s, classic monsters were all the rage. After this era, the 50’s gave movie-goers atomically mutated creatures and giant bugs, and no one can forget when the 80’s introduced slashers. With such […]
No one would be surprised by the notion that youth culture is a driving force in American popular entertainment. It’s an accepted truth, but this idea sits in an interesting place, culture is now shaped by mass media at least as much as it drives any of its trends. This is certainly true for American […]
There are plenty of bad films out there which could have been great, but what about the ones which were only ‘good’ but could have been great? There are many films out there which succeed in one area or another, but for the most part, fall short and end up squandering great opportunities. These films […]
The lofty reputation that precedes Paul Thomas Anderson’s name, including all the fervid rhetoric around his films, is simply unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries. For a whole generation that grew up between Blockbuster shelves, arguably no director filled the cinematic void left by the glorious seventies to a greater extent than PTA. […]