Writer’s note: The second paragraph of this article (just below the first image) contains a basic outline of the film’s premise. There are no spoilers that weren’t already inferred in the film’s own...
Tag - Lawrence of Arabia
This is retrospective discussing the production, influence and overall quality of Avatar (2009). With Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) now released, it’s the right time to take a look back at how we got here, examining the...
There are complex definitions of auteur theory, but it basically means that a director’s body of work deals with similar themes in similar styles. This applies to filmmaking techniques, such as Stanley Kubrick’s visual...
It is becoming more and more difficult to pull off historical epics convincingly. We can create massive battles and recreate period accurate landscapes with a bit of help from our computers, but there is some magic lost in the...