FIGURE 1: A piece of promotional material for Ringing Bell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQt8CqVPNC4&t=262s FIGURE 2: The film’s opening song, and the address that follows. “Wolf! Alright, I’ve decided to be your apprentice…
read morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8fuzj3gck Figure 1 Jordan Peele’s latest film nope follows siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood in the aftermath of their father’s unexpected death. The siblings ‘We ain’t got no more problems’…
read moreAnimals, a cutesy love story and the rise of underdogs… literally. What more could you want in a film? Well, ‘Hotel for Dogs’ (Thor Freudenthal/ 2009) covers a multitude of…
read more“Do you think God gives a damn about miniature donkeys, Colm?” “I fear he doesn’t. And I fear that’s where it’s all gone wrong.” Martin McDonagh’s, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (2022),…
read morehttps://youtu.be/nvb6tvZOYIo Paddington, directed by Paul King, captures the life of an orphaned bear who travels from Peru to London sponsored by his Aunt Lucy to seek a better life the…
read more“One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” In The Little Prince the depiction of foxes defies conventional animality as they generally symbolise…
read moreOh great! A dog wants me to go to St. Petersburg.Anastasia. 1997. An adventure with strangers and a new puppy! Figure 2. Figure 1. Anya and Pooka. Twentieth Century Fox’s…
read moreFigure 1. The title of the film, The Future, is emblematic of the very thing the characters fear, what is the unknown. July certainly lets the cat out of the…
read moreHave you ever wondered what the everyday life of a street cat looks like? ‘Kedi’ is an observational documentary film that follows the stray cats of Istanbul through their daily…
read morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZfEQ_pMdg Official trailer for An American Tail Fig.1 An American Tail poster by Drew Struzan. It comprises the American Dream spirit and the hopes of the immigrants An American Tail…
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