Film has changed a lot over the years, and one of the most current and advanced formats is 4DX. I rejected the format on principle. Why on earth would anyone want to watch a static image of a movie while their chair was shaking and stuff is blown in their face? It simply made no…
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Banter: An Ode to Cinema?
We had a run of movies-about-movies lately: Damien Chazelle’s heady Babylon, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light. Of course, these aren’t the first and they won’t be the last pieces of celluloid (metaphorical or otherwise) to address the nature of film itself. The Artist, Son of Rambow, Ed Wood, Hail, Caesar!,…
Review: Empire of Light
An emotionally complex but peacefully affecting story about two people finding some solace with each other. Written and directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall, 1917) Empire of Light follows the story of Hilary, (Olivia Colman) a woman struggling with her mental health while working at an Empire cinema in coastal England. When new hire Stephen (Micheal…