• How Silent Films Work

    The word ‘movie’ has its origin in the syntagma ‘moving picture’, also known as ‘motion picture’, which accurately, if rather simplistically described what an ensemble of successive pictures would be called. In the beginning, films implied motion, but no […]

    Mar 4, 2018
    Julian A. Leu
  • BAFTA Awards 2018

    Another one of the big ceremonies has come and gone – the BAFTA Awards took place on Sunday, 18 February 2018 in London, UK. This meant that, for once, us Europeans could watch a winter season award without having […]

    Feb 23, 2018
    Julian A. Leu
  • Interview with JANUARY 2018 winner: Rebecca Gosnell

    The first month of the year has come and gone. Whether or not it passed quickly depends on the intensity of one’s activity during the initial 31 days of the year. And while January does indeed have the habit […]

    Feb 18, 2018
    Julian A. Leu
  • 10 Films that Critics Loved but Viewers Disliked

    People will never agree with each other – it’s a fact. Their tastes, experiences, levels of education, attention spans and temporary factors that affect the enjoyment one can get from a film all impact their perception of a given […]

    Feb 15, 2018
    Julian A. Leu
  • The Star Wars Cash Cow

    Star Wars Episode I was the first film – animations excluded – that I distinctly remember watching at the cinema, with my dad. It came out in 1999, 16 years after the Original Trilogy had concluded with Return of […]

    Feb 7, 2018
    Julian A. Leu
  • 5 Facts About the 2018 Oscars

    The Oscar nominations have finally been announced this week, and save for a few surprising omissions, the list is pretty much as everyone expected it to be. We’re not here to discuss the potential award winners – we’ve had […]

    Jan 27, 2018
    Julian A. Leu