If you can’t find your Aladdin lead, you’re not looking hard enough

With Beauty and the Beast being another huge hit, Disney is well on its way to remaking all of their animated classics. Jon Favreau is currently developing his remake of The Lion King, and Disney is in China trying to…

What we find at The World’s End

The Worlds End was one of those movies that had me in constant facial contortions. One moment I was splitting my face in two with a toothy grin, the next it was agape, my hands covering it in empathetic panic over…

Getting An Extra Life: A Retrospective of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  Edgar Wright hit a certain level of mainstream success in a wonderful overlap with my own ability…

Sofia Coppola’s Films Ranked

Sofia Coppola is one of our brightest and most talented directors, genre-hopping throughout her career with each turn offering something new. She has developed a distinct style over the course of her career, something that is keenly shown off in…

The world as he knows it comes to an end in Shaun of the Dead

We’re taking a look at what has made each of Edgar Wright’s films great in lead up to the release of Baby Driver.  Who hasn’t woken up and thought the world was coming to an end? In Edgar Wright’s Shaun…

Why is M. Night Shyamalan Getting so Many Directing Shots While Women are Only Getting One?

Even if you haven’t seen an  M. Night Shyamalan movie, you know what an  M. Night Shyamalan twist is. It’s a small piece of the plot which suddenly makes us question everything, including our own lives. 18 years later, we’re…

10 Film Noir for Beginners

So what is film noir? A French term literally translating to “black film,” historians will tell you film noir was an unofficial cycle of American films released in the 40s and 50s that usually centered around stories involving crime and…