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Lars Von Trier is a film-maker whose work goes without definition; he’s the kind of artist that defies what the mainstream may consider to be the proper and appropriate way to present a narrative, yet somehow still manages to find himself at the talking end of press and internet blogs ...

Between Thor and Captain America, the usual superhero staples to receive the perfunctory origin story, somewhat bewilderingly stands yet another attempted revival of cult fiction in the form of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a movie that for all intents and purposes is exactly that—an origin movie, made ...

By now, Jim Carrey’s career is one lined with a long history of hit and misses—from the zaney and energetic debut of Ace Ventura, to the less than stellar murmur of say, Bruce Almighty, Carrey is one of those comedic actors who occasionally takes his brand of comedy to breaking ...

So I’m sitting in the theatre, about thirty minutes into J.J. Abrams latest sci-fi blockbuster when I suddenly think to myself; I haven’t seen a movie quite like this in a while. In fact, it’s a style which owes very much to the film-maker that Abrams too often gets himself ...

Watching Captain America, it’s hard to believe that both the Cap and his fellow crime-fighting hero from a different universe, Batman were produced from the same era. Yet looking back, both share the same kooky, somewhat terribly written, pseudo-patriotic propaganda comic appeal that, at least for comic books’ key demographic ...

There are two kinds of people in the world; those who will gladly take the companion of a giraffe to avoid the abyss of loneliness, and those who will wait for their lion to avoid the equally daunting abyss of disappointment. In short, you can either wait for that perfect ...

At this time in their illustrious careers as animators and storytellers, Pixar Studios are by no means strangers to the connotations of success. In fact, pretty much singlehandedly shifting the mainstream public’s attention from hand-drawn animation to digital 3D during the late 90’s, the studio is responsible not just for ...

Psycho. Maneater. Tool. They’re horrible bosses, and so they must die. Obviously, right? Okay, maybe not—but we’ve all been there. He’s the guy who makes your fresh coffee seems years older than your mother; the woman who can turn milk sour by staring at it; it’s that person you hate ...

“Don’t most of your friends already have divorced parents?” “Yeah, but, I don’t.” Telling the all too familiar tale of a family driven apart by divorce, The Squid and the Whale which comes as a semi-autobiography of sorts penned by Noah Baumbach at times feels like it was written by ...

Taking a brief oversight of the Internet’s general opinion of Creation, it’s that the movie at best depicts not Darwin the Scientist, but Darwin the Man. It’s true, yes; but plainly underselling of the movie itself as a narrative, and as a thematic discussion of Darwin’s presented themes themselves. Underlying ...