I am not a whimsical person. In fact, I have an outstanding reputation for being where whimsy goes to die. Although I am painfully aware that my grim exterior may be somewhat off-putting, it’s a situation that simply can’t be helped. Just as a bird is born to fly, it would seem that I’ve been put [...]

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 [...]

For anyone who has been on the anime, Japanese animation, circuit for a while there is a constant debate whether it is better to watch it in subtitles or where the Japanese audio is removed and reread by English speaking actors, also known as dubbing. There is a case for both of them but there [...]

Fantasia Film festival kicked off its opening weekend with the latest creative features and short films, as well as a free webinar titled Afrofuturism: Visions of the Future from "The Other" Side, covering the past, present, and future depictions of people of color. Focusing on the lack of Black perspectives on the future (save for [...]

In the history of film, the concept of space aliens has been around for a long time. If we're only focusing on Alien, the film that popularized the terror from space genre, scary aliens have been around for over 40 years. When our culture is exposed to the idea of scary aliens for that long, [...]

Philosophers have discussed for thousands of years whether humans have the free will to make up their own destinies or if each of us has a predetermined fate. As this question, along with the meaning of life, cannot be answered we leave it to be our writers and filmmakers to speculate and create possible answers [...]

Playing of the recognition of another movie and trying to "ape" their success can often be a bold move that runs more risks than it does gains. Most of the time it just comes off as a cheap imitation boarding on rip off territory. Some companies like The Asylum have built an entire empire off of [...]