Film

“It’s TV; it’s comfort. It’s a friend you’ve known so well, and for so long you just let it be with you, and it needs to be okay for it to have a bad day or phone in a day, and it needs to be okay for it to get on a boat with Levar Burton…

When we think of space-set sci-fi, images of the chestburster from Alien, HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey or Sandra Bullock hurdling through the great abyss in Gravity spring to mind. Yet, certain space movies forgo such spectacle. They use…

Venice Film Festival - one of the world's 'big three' film festivals alongside Cannes and Berlin - wrapped a week ago. Yet, plenty of the movies I saw there have lingered and lived on in my brain days after watching. Realising I'll have no…

If you are a die-hard fan of action cinema, you definitely had an action hero you watched religiously throughout your youth. For most, it was Bruce Lee, Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger and understandably so, as Lee, Stallone and…

Welcome to Animation Globe where we analyse animated films from around the world. Today’s entry is 2008 Israeli movie Waltz with Bashir. The first feature length Israeli animated film, written and directed by Ari Folman, it tells the story…

The Who's 1972 double magnus opus Quadrophenia is often regarded as the pinnacle of both the band, and songwriter Pete Townshend's creativity. It's a recording that pushed forward with a concept, a la their 1969 masterpiece Tommy. However,…

Every once in a while, there comes a delightful surprise of film which manages to exceed expectations wildly. Hustlers is one of those movies. Based on New York Magazine's 2015 article 'The Hustlers at Scores' by Jessica Pressler, our way…

You probably already know the work of Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman; the co writer/director team behind Extra Ordinary. You just might not realise it. Under their pseudonym D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design Yeah!) they've created…

When I first learned that Alexandre Aja, the man behind genre favourites such as Switchblade Romance and The Hills Have Eyes remake, was helming a disaster horror movie, the 18-year-old inside of me lost his mind a little and became…

It may not look the most visually appealing but there was something beautiful about a little-known series called Pelswick. Created by Canadian animation studio Nelvana Limited and Chinese company Hong Ying Animation, we are treated to an…