current posts - Fantasy/Animation

Twenty five years ago to this day, in the ancient coastal city of Genoa, anti-riot units of the Italian police mounted a night-time raid against sleeping activists. Mostly young people, some of them journalists, who were spending the night camped inside a school complex—one named, perhaps fittingly, after a victorious WW1 general. Genoa was playing host to the G8. Protesters ...

At the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony, the actress Goldie Hawn announced that the winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film was Flow – a moment where global audience members discovered the film’s creator and director, the Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis. Yet another previous feature of his awaits s...

When we watch a movie, what exactly do we feel? The answer to this question is different from person to person. It is very obvious to someone who has studied sociology to analyse the movie using their own thoughts and embodied knowledge. Similarly, as a student in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, when I watch a movie, I always try to interpret it through a t...

Watch the Film Like a Critic, Not a Fan.

Most movie reviews are just a plot summary wearing a star rating. They walk you through the whole story, then end with “it was good” or “it was boring.” That is a recap, not a review. Nobody needs you to ...