Lucy
A Wave of Curiosity Before It Even Began Before its release, Luc Besson’s Lucy generated tremendous excitement and buzz. Here was a film billed as an action-packed sci-fi thriller focusing on a woman who is unlocking the potential of ‘full brain capacity’. It even promised some philosophical elements. The trailers were sleek and mysterious, featuring […]
The Wandering Earth
When Earth Itself Becomes Hero The Wandering Earth begins with the remarkable premise of the sun expanding and threatening to consume Earth. Rather than abandoning their home, humanity plans to build thousands of massive engines to push the planet out of its orbit and set it on a journey across the galaxy. It was a […]
The Finest Hours
The Finest Hours: A Tale of Heroism and the Human Spirit The film The Finest Hours was the beginning of multiple portrayals of heroism and the human spirit in film history. The film was based on the U.S. Coast Guard’s first rescue mission of the 1952. A small crew went out and attempted to save […]
The Pope’s Exorcist
When Pop Culture Meets Exorcism: The Emergence of The Pope’s Exorcist 2023 marked the return of the horror franchise Father Gabriele Amorth, the chief exorcist of the Vatican. Amorth was played by Russell Crowe. The Pope’s Exorcist was the first film in the franchise. It provided the audience with delightful supernatural thrills and the first […]
The Lost City
A Treasure Hunt That Began with a Romance Novel The Lost City shows us Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock), a bestselling romance novelist, who is lonely, and begins to feel trapped in her own fictional, adventure-filled worlds. The adventures in her novels center around a romance with a hero called Dash, who is played by her […]
My Mom’s New Boyfriend
A Comedy, With a Side of Espionage While most people expected a simple romantic comedy from My Mom’s New Boyfriend, which was released in 2008, the title alone invoked images of something more substantial, perhaps some intergenerational humor and stiff dinner sequences. What most people got was a head-scratching combination of romantic comedy and crime […]
Werewolves
When Horror Became Real: The Case of Werewolves The mythological ‘ man turned into beast’ has indeed fascinated the cinemagoers for decades including the portray of the afflicted Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man and the contemporary cinemations in The Howling and Ginger Snaps, cinema has distinctively enthused about werewolves. And, just like in every […]
The Karate Kid
Introduction The Karate Kid (2010) is the martial arts drama that takes the cross-cultural approach of retelling the classic. Directed by Harald Zwart, it moves the narrative from the beloved United States setting to China, thus adding to the culture. It has Jaden Smith playing the lead Dre Parker and Jackie Chan as his mentor […]
Attack on Titan Part 1
Hidden Structures and Their Hidden Strategies When Attack on Titan Part 1 was released in 2015 and showed on the big screens in Japan, in was not just yet another mangga and anime tale turned into a movie. It was a sone of cultural experimentation. Would the story that was dark and scary and yet […]
Mahavatar Narsimha
From Inspiration to Animation The ambitious project Mahavatar Narsimha, with a 2024 release date, aims to make a seven-part animated series on the Lord Vishu’s ten avatars. He has concerned himself with `Indian animation’s’ perception. Kumar, who aspires to newer heights in Indian vfx and storytelling, shows that animation is not exclusively for children. The […]