It’s possible that the great Pauline Kael might have liked Joker – Chris Cassingham compares it to another controversially violent film, Bonnie & Clyde.
Just like Charlie Chaplin, Cosmo Kramer is seeing another kind of creature, one created through the absurd, interacting with the world, and seeing the out-of-control, spiralling outcomes.
Sullivan’s Travels may not quickly come to mind when watching Monsters, Inc., but after examining both films, there is a connection in not only their themes but their structures as well.
In the Japanese films Your Name and My Tomorrow Your Yesterday, a similar theme can be formed, that of the Time Travel Dream Girl. We discuss what that means in the context of each film.
Where Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddysey was visionary and original, 2010: The Year We Make Contact failed to compete with the monolith that casts quite a shadow.
The view on the 1990s Star Wars prequels is synonymous with hubris, failure, and shoddy filmmaking, that is until Disney came into the picture and changed the image completely with its latest additions to the franchise Rogue One and Solo.