When Christopher Nolan announced that his follow-up to the cultural monolith of Oppenheimer would be an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, the cinematic establishment experienced…
By Sara Bright It begins with the light. Not the brutal, bleaching glare of a Hollywood sun, but the unique, painterly light of the Venetian…
The pressure was immense. After the grim, joyless collapse of its previous cinematic universe, DC Studios needed a saviour. It needed a film that could…
By Sara Bright Every great empire has a story of a near-fatal misstep, a moment of hubris or miscalculation so profound that it threatens the…
By Sara Bright There is a face that is hardwired into the consciousness of an entire generation. It is the face of a boy, eight…
By Sara Bright There is a specific kind of grief reserved for the return of something you once loved, only to find it hollowed out,…
By Sara Bright August is a strange month for cinema. It arrives at the tail end of summer, when the blockbuster fatigue has set in…
By Tessa Nolan If you listen closely to the stories cinema is telling us this year, you can hear a distinct and welcome sound: the…
By Sara Bright It arrived with the quiet confidence of a project that knew it was destined to conquer. In a streaming landscape littered with…
By Sara Bright There are certain partnerships in the cultural sphere that feel less like a collaboration and more like a convergence, an inevitable meeting…