Oscars: Original Screenplay

A screenplay is arguably the most important part of a film. It is the basis for the movie that follows and without it there would be nothing even resembling a film. There is a lot of debate about which category is the more difficult achievement, my opinion is that an original work is a greater […]

12 Years a Slave – 2013

There are some stories that have to be told, no matter how tragic they are, this is one of them. 12 Years a Slave follows Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) a free man living in New York who is deceived and sold into slavery. The film follows him as he tries to adapt to his new […]

Oscars: Sound

I’m going to kill two birds with one stone on this one. Both Sound Editing and Sound Mixing are big technical categories in the Academy Awards. Sound Editing covers the sound effects that are added to a film to create the feel that goes along with the aesthetic of the film. Sound Mixing focuses on […]

Mad Max: Fury Road – 2015

Max Rockatansky is an iconic character in the action genre. Originally played by Mel Gibson, the iconic character is reimagined here and is played by the equally impressive Tom Hardy. Rebooting a classic franchise is almost never a good idea, the benefit of doing it here is that it has the original director, George Miller. […]

The Insult – 2017

Courtroom films have the potential to be some of the most engaging films, if they are done right. This one is done extremely well. The film follows Tony Hanna (Axel Karam) a devout Christian living in Lebanon who refuses to allow a Palestinian construction worker called Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha) from repairing a broken […]

La La Land – 2016

Damien Chazelle is a strange case in Hollywood. He is probably the youngest director to have as much clout as he already has. In less than three years he went from directing an indie film to the biggest film of the year. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as two young dreamers who fall in […]