“Wolfwalkers” Review: Best Animated Film of the Last 5 Years is Mystifying & Audaciously Extraordinary
Animation in cinema is an amazing art form that is sadly underutilized in terms of its potential. We have experienced the majesty of Pride Rock in 1994’s “The Lion King”, we have transformed into a rat with a love for cooking in a Paris restaurant with 2007’s “Ratatouille”, and we have seen the fate of
Another Round: Is There a Final Round?
According to Norwegian philosopher Finn Skårderud’s hypothesis, human beings are born with a deficit of 0.5‰ of alcohol in their blood. In other words, humans need about two glasses of wine to feel better and get their creativity, courage and open-mindedness boosted. This is tested in the Danish Oscar contender Another Round which explores how
“Run” Review: Best Studio Thriller Of The Year Is A Masterclass of Building Tension
Major film studios have a massive creativity problem. Not out of lack of resources or lack of talent at their disposal, but out of an increasingly algorithmic decision-making process to take whatever was financially successful from the previous years and replicate it. The only way to find any substantial funding for mid-range artist-driven films with
The Emotional Euphoria of “Waves”
Few independent filmmakers of the last several years have had as interesting of a short-spanned career thus far as Trey Edward Shults. Starting off in the early 2010s as an intern and production assistant on Terrence Malick’s films “The Tree of Life”, “Voyage of Time” and “Song to Song”, Shults steadily created short films with
50 (or Two Whales Meet at the Beach): The Most Creative Film at Venice Deserves Global Distribution
A few years ago, the Russian media bombarded with news about the so-called “Blue Whale challenge” which, allegedly, has led to the suicides of many teenagers in the country. The “Blue Whale” consists of 50 challenges over 50 days; the first tasks are innocuous (“Wake up during the night.” or “Watch a scary movie.”), but