Ah, grief. A thing that plagues us all in one way or another, and incidentally, is a hot topic for many of today’s filmmakers. Some of the best cinematic performances we’ve been blessed with in recent years have been centered around it, especially in the horror genre – from Toni “I am your mother!” [...]
June 22nd is Windrush Day, a date that celebrates the contributions of Afro-Caribbean migrants to the United Kingdom. In light of the UK government’s scandalous treatment of many members of the ‘Windrush Generation’ (named after the Empire Windrush ship which brought 492 Caribbean people to Britain in 1948), that same government announced that a [...]
Nowadays contemporary art works are often created through in-depth processes of appropriating found imagery. In which, style plays a significant role in developing a narrative centered around different methods of communication and interactions between people and their environments. Nicolas Bourriaud in his 1998 book Esthétique relationnelle sets forth that relational art involves taking the [...]
Until very recently, Hollywood’s Asian characters were pretty much limited to the odd doctor here or there, the ‘dragon lady’ love interest, beggars on the streets of South Asia, or, let’s not forget the holy grail: the ‘New York taxi driver with the most overly-exaggerated Indian accent you’ll ever hear’. But that slowly started [...]
I’m sure we all must have seen a remake at least once in our life. Some of them we probably enjoyed and thought that they added a new value to the franchise while others we probably detested and found them to be an insult to the original. No matter how hard you try to [...]
