The Rabbitte Perspective

An angst vampire flick with no real bite...  I don't know if this runs true for everyone else reading, but whenever a film, specifically a book adaptation, gets dubbed as a "pop-culture phenomenon" or a "pop-classic", there are two thoughts of thinking that crop up. Indeed, while at first we're intrigued by the prospect of the film living up to  the 'phenomenon' status that the writers and reviewers have naively stamped for readers to buy into, there of course comes the expected doubt and how, in actuality, many of these films that do adopt similar taglines, disappointingly don't live up-to what these wordsmiths have suggested. Like it or not, Catherine Hardwicke's 2008 Vampiric romantic-fantasy film of Twilight , a feature based on Stephanie Meyer's novel of the same name, is a good contemporary example of this. While this was a film that spawned a franchise that it's main demographic/devoted readers of the books poured th...

"You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist." Hello everyone and welcome to a rather different Blog Post. For this week, instead of me typically reviewing a film that has either been recently released or a film of my own choice, I wanted to do something a bit more fun and somewhat intersting. This will be a Blog Post where I basically tell you guys about the many songs that I grew up with and still listen today. Granted, there will be a few songs from different artists that came out a couple of years ago and, I''m not exactly the person to go to when it comes to music and what-not. Never the less, I did want to do something different for this week, since I've basically done the same thing for weeks on-end. Anyway, lets see what songs I've chosen!!... (Just a side-note, I'm not going to into detail with every song, I think some songs speak for themselves...) Michael Jackson - Black or White (1991) The first song to be...

All good things, must come to an end... While it is already a long time since its origin, next year will mark 20 years when a story about a young boy-wizard, growing up and prevailing against darkness, took shape in the form of a book for many children and adults to be engrossed in. Indeed, J.K. Rowling's much favoured 'The Philosopher Stone' book, published in 1997, sparked a generation of young-readers to be enthralled in a thrilling story that had mystery, adventure and 'magic'. While it can't be questioned to deny that Rowling provided me, and lots of other people similar-age, a literary upbringing that accomplished many things, the filmic legacy, which was brought about with Rowling selling the Potter rights to Warner Bros. in 1999, would prove to be just as popular and as imperative in parading the Harry Potter name. To put it simply, this praised and lauded film franchise is nothing like anything on one has ever seen before. Despite not comparing i...

An eccentric and unique artistic offering that contrasts the modern cinematic norm In this era when there are more prequels, sequels and re-hashes of old and familiar features that necessitates a pre-response of audiences grumbling in disgruntlement, finding a film and a director that is entirely original is hard to come across. For sure, we do have the likes of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and a few more auteurs who grace us with their own unique and stylised array of films that feels refreshing to witness. However, the abundance of studios and film-makers who opt to saturate this precious art-medium with spin-off's and follow-ups of franchises that eventually get swept aside by similar constructs, can leave the modern cinema-goer feeling stagnant and uninspired due to the lack of imagination that many film-makers don't fully uphold. Thankfully, within a year that has had an amalgamation of ingenuity and duds, Swiss Army Man , directed by both Daniel Sche...