With subbing and dubbing each having their merits, Ananya Sriram argues that the only language that matters is the language of cinema.
What does the big screen have in store for us in 2020?
2019 was a great year for movies between language barriers being overcome and original films breaking records. And so far, 2020 looks just as promising. While the year started off with the wide releases of […]
The West is not the Best: Will Parasite’s Success be enough to Reinvent the Film Industry?
Owen Frost explores the success of Parasite but why it‘s progress for international films could be lost.
Parasite: The (Hopeful) Future of Award Shows
The 92nd Academy Awards were recently held in the famed Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and all eyes were on one film in particular. Parasite, a Korean dark-comedy thriller directed by Bong Joon-ho, is not […]
Parasite’s Best Picture win: Real change or merely symbolic?
‘The Oscars are not an international film festival. They’re very local’, Bong Joon-ho (now four-time Oscar-winner) told Vulture in October last year when asked what he thought of the exclusion of Korean films from nominations. […]
The 92nd Academy Awards: A Night To Remember.
Sunday night was the Oscars; the crème de la crème of film award shows. Stars flocked to the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to see the best of an amazing group of films win the […]
Review: Parasite
It almost feels like an insult to attempt to contain Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite into one genre. Perhaps terming it a thriller would be the aptest classification, for it manages to thrill from start to finish. […]
Cat s**t cray
23.11.12 Cat owners beware – a Leeds University study has revealed that a parasite found in cat poo could directly alter the chemistry of the human brain. The research, led by Dr Glenn McConkey of […]