Film

I still remember when I saw the trailer for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I couldn’t tell you what film I was in the cinema to see, but I vividly recall watching a sepia-tinged airship crawl across the sky before New York City was…

Avengement is a terrible name; I don’t think it’s even a word. Maybe it was a placeholder on Jesse V. Johnson and Stu Small’s script or maybe it was designed as an algorithm cheater for when people searched for the recent home media release…

When American Horror Story first aired in 2011, it was widely received with enthusiasm. For fans of the horror genre it became a must-watch event, cleverly mixing the gruesome and the supernatural with original plot twists. Plus…

In the end credit bloopers, Paul Rudd is asked “What advice do you have to other young actors who want to hide their Jewishness?” and he laughs hysterically. It’s only after the film ends that the audience gets what it wants from Between…

The Souvenir. Pain And Glory. This has been some year for excellent, semi-autobiographical works. The best of the lot however, might just be Lulu Wang’s sophomore effort The Farewell, a perfectly-pitched family drama about tradition and the…

“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…