From the origins of storytelling and the creation of cinema, conflict has always been an element needed to push a narrative forward. Furthermore, conflict tends to have established heroes and villains. While protagonists are extremely important, villains are also crucial and enthralling to watch. When done well, antagonists can be fascinatingly complex or strike fear […]
“There will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western.” Steven Spielberg said this back in 2015, and while superhero movies have not died out yet, he does have a point. Genre popularity in film is finite. Sure, there are revivals and resurgences, but a good amount of film genres […]
Some movies are meant to be told in chapters. The proliferation of Marvel films has led the film industry to operate like comic books. Viewers are given grand narratives that play out through trilogies, sagas, and even entire fictional shared universes. However, sometimes, a self-contained film is given the chance to continue telling its story […]
Making a strong case for being the most cine-literate mainstream record in recent memory, the last album by ever evolving British rock outfit Arctic Monkeys, Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, a sometime concept piece revolving around a mid century style hotel on the Moon, is a truly inspired vision that brilliantly infuses cinematic influences with […]
In an exhilarating decade that gave movie-goers films like Pulp Fiction, The Matrix, Titanic, Silence of the Lambs, Do the Right Thing, and so much more, the film industry in the 1990’s was blowing up with revolutionary ideas and filmmakers. However, even in an era of success, there were also films that quietly sat on […]
The film industry was flooded with westerns from the mid-1930s’ the whole way up through the 1970s’. For decades, every week after week, audiences would see the release of multiple new westerns at their cinema and these themes and motifs became ingrained in our pop culture and modern entertainment. So many great films fell to […]