Hayao Miyazaki is one of the more creative and fascinating directors working today. His animated movies stand as the best Studio Ghibli have to offer – stunning visual masterpieces with so much imagination, it’s easy to see why he’s considered the Walt Disney of the East. It did however, take almost two decades for the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me was released in 1992 to mass critical planning. It made zero money at the box office and was widely hated by both audiences and critics – Tarantino, a then up and coming director, hated it, claiming that he would never watch another David Lynch movie again. Lynch had, in the … Continue reading
Twin Peaks
David Lynch has proved himself to be one of the world’s most interesting and unique visual filmmakers. His movies generally possess an eerie, dreamlike quality, with plots heavy on symbolism, surrealism and duality and peppered with moments of bizarre humour and nightmares. One of Lynch’s most interesting projects, however, appeared on smaller screens – Twin Peaks first … Continue reading
Django Unchained
The spaghetti western sprung up in early 60s as a revisionist take on the tired John Wayne-style westerns of the previous decade. Created in the wake of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the movies were made in Italy by Italians and kicked new life into the Old West. The genre is known for a specific … Continue reading