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2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the very first Superhero: Superman, and in honour of this iconic character DC and Warner Bros. have rebooted the franchise for a film, and it came out looking amazing! This film had so many great qualities to it that made it so beautiful. such as the mesmerizing SFX, the awesome action, the high standard acting and more. This is definitely a film that will be remembered for years to come. The film starts off on Krypton, where Scientist Jor-El (Russell Crowe) is pleading to the world's council about the destruction of the planet. Already we are shown a Krypton that has been brought to death due to individuals believing themselves to be like Gods without consequence. This is a theme throughout the whole film that Kryptonians believed themselves to be like Gods, as is presented through the fact that Kryptonians are grown rather than naturally birthed, the extraction of the Krypton's core for energy and through General Zod who values one group o...

Over the past decade and a half a new type of genre has swept the screens of Hollywood cinema: Superhero films. This all started out with X-men in 2000 and grew with Spider-man and Batman. This genre has grown so much over the years that now we have what is now known as the Marvel cinematic universe, which gave us the third biggest film of all time: The Avengers. However, this post isn't going to focus on that, but more on the other side of that coin. The DC Superheroes! Lately Marvel heroes like Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man and many others have been in the spotlight, and rightly so. Their respective companies (Sony, Disney, Fox) know how to promote these characters and establish them in the modern world. This isn't the same for Warner. Bros and their DC titles. Sure, Batman was a critical and financial success but that lately that was all they had, as can be seen by box office busts like Jonah Hex and Green Lantern. But there seems to be a bright light for DC in the form of Ma...

When I first heard that this film was being made I was very skeptical. The Original film with Dorothy and the wicked witch was an important part of many people's childhood that it seemed that this prequel couldn't live up to it. But after seeing it at the cinema my skepticism was laid to rest. This film is AWESOME!!!    The film follows a similar structure narrative-wise to that of the Wizard of Oz. You start off with in Kansas where everything is in black-and-white, keeping to continuity, then you have the twister that takes the character to the land of Oz. The audience is then introduced important characters like Theodora and Evanora, we even get the journey down the yellow-brick road. The writers have brilliantly taken all these elements from the previous film and used them to create a contemporary origin to the Oz that children were introduced too in 1939.    James Franco was well cast in this role as a rude and selfish magician who w...

After seeing this film I found it very difficult to hold back any kind of strong emotion that would make me look like less of a man, but this was too difficult to do as Les Miserables destroyed any cold-hearted side of me and made me weep like hell. This film is the sheer pinnacle of the musical genre because it entwines raw emotion with beautiful music numbers. The sets were amazing and the acting was astounding.    The film starts off with the main character, Jean Val Jean, played by Hugh Jackman, who looks amazing in this scene as he went on an insane diet for this. Already the audience gets the idea of the kind of world the film is set in: dark and enslaved. We are also introduced to the films villain, Javert, played by Russell Crowe who proves that he can sing! The introduction of this rivalry between the two characters is the corner-stone for this entire film since it shows these two different philosophies of life fight against one-another and marks the begin...

The Auteur theory is that a director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision.  I am going to use  David Fincher as an example, because he usually has similar aspects throughout all of his films such as bleakness of a setting; several single frames that flash, low-key lighting and characters that are in the shadows so you can’t see their faces. All of these styles can be found in Fight Club (1999). In most of Fincher’s films the settings seem to have a bleak and uninteresting look to them. In Fight Club this is shown in places like the office of where Jack works, the cancer support group hall, Jack’s apartment. All of these places are just different shades of the same colour (mainly green, grey or dark orange). This is to convey a sense of misery and darkness within the storyline, which the characters are just drifting through their lives. Something that Fincher portrays beautifully in Fight Club. This is a good example of David Fincher’s position as an Au...