Anxiety, for the many people that experience it, is a disorder that is hard to explain let alone capture on film. In a thriller, the audience can be put on the edge of their seats with stressful situations and high stakes, but anxiety is a different beast entirely. It is a boiling below the surface [...]

The art of the mockumentary is a hard line to balance between drama and comedy amongst many other factors. Is it a parody of a real documentary, is it something totally original,  is the audience in on the joke, or are they in the dark? These are the things that need to be considered if [...]

A storytelling technique that has become increasingly more popular in the last few decades that is often used in artier films is breaking your film into sections or chapters. These can be used to show a simple passage of time or to give a thematic tone to the next scene, something for the audience to [...]

One of the most interesting things a filmmaker can do for their project, as well as the audience, is creating a unique world for the story and characters to inhabit. This can be anything from just one small change that has a greater impact on the world as a whole, introducing an assassin robot to [...]

If there is one thing the horror genre is known for when it isn't being campy or silly, is the seeming limitless cruelty that people can subject each other to. While it is easy to say that the kills in Friday the 13th are more digestible than Hostel these are still films about people's lives being snuffed [...]

Recently it seems that many people have been hitting a "wall" when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic. Considering it has been a year one could assume that we would all be used to the way the world is right now but it seems that isn't so. Even people who respected the guidelines, worn their [...]

In a year that just seems to take more and more from everyone, whether it be financial stability or a loved one, its hunger seems endless. While it is obvious why children shouldn't be accepting candy from strangers during a global pandemic, there is a sad loss of wonder for children and adults alike to [...]