Ah, grief. A thing that plagues us all in one way or another, and incidentally, is a hot topic for many of today’s filmmakers. Some of the best cinematic performances we’ve been blessed with in recent years have been centered around it, especially in the horror genre – from Toni “I am your mother!” [...]
Denis Villeneuve is a great director. He proves this with each new movie of his. When it became known that he was to direct a new film based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 cult sci-fi novel Dune, it was difficult not to get excited. The Dune book series is beloved by many, and a proper [...]
June 22nd is Windrush Day, a date that celebrates the contributions of Afro-Caribbean migrants to the United Kingdom. In light of the UK government’s scandalous treatment of many members of the ‘Windrush Generation’ (named after the Empire Windrush ship which brought 492 Caribbean people to Britain in 1948), that same government announced that a [...]
Finally, I managed to see the latest Woody Allen film. It’s not available for streaming, wasn’t released in the UK, and I didn’t want to watch it on a DVD. Apparently, in today’s Dark Age of plague and politically correct puritans, one has to go to a cinema in Eastern Europe in order to [...]
Nowadays contemporary art works are often created through in-depth processes of appropriating found imagery. In which, style plays a significant role in developing a narrative centered around different methods of communication and interactions between people and their environments. Nicolas Bourriaud in his 1998 book Esthétique relationnelle sets forth that relational art involves taking the [...]
