For Hayao Miyazaki, 'The Wind Rises' is his manifesto
For Hayao Miyazaki, 'The Wind Rises' is his manifesto
A “meek librarian” becomes a dashing adventuress, subverting archetypes along the way.
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“LOVE NEVER DIES,” declares the tagline of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation of the 1897 novel. While the tagline refers to the film’s romance between its titular character (a
You are now reading an exclusive piece from the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 1:Vampires. Enjoy! – The Film Daze Team True to their subjects’ own immortality, the vampire genre will outlive time. It’s
Radically experimental Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella creates a mesmerizingly metacinematic vampire story like no other.
osa Luxemburg takes the best approach possible, setting itself and its central political figure in the midst of Germany’s 1919 revolution, an event which embodied both the hope and tragedy of Luxemburg’s
The comparable character arcs of Catwoman and Cheetah demonstrate a transition from passive secondary character into active primary antagonist.
Black Lives Matter – they always have and always will.
What’s remarkable about our current Black villains is the capacity for complexity and pleasure in their characterization.