The Rabbitte Perspective

Down Came The Rain...And Definitely Washed The Spider Out... As stated many times over the course of many film reviews that have amounted to what this Blog-site has become, not only is the hardest job for a director to construct a sequel that maintains the consistency of quality that derived from the first film, as well as adding a new motif that functions to flourish the plot and/or characters, but it's also not uncommon to witness successful superhero films spawn their own series due to the demands of the avid-watcher in the modern era. The development of the said and lauded genre has, of course, dominated the cinematic space in this moment in time to the point that they're consuming the euphoria of our pleasure on a consistent basis that, for most, inadvertently 'tricks' our perspective into liking these demanded productions so much. Arguably, besides the catastrophic disappointment that was Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand , it wasn't until audien

My Favourite Romance Films " I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about" Moonrise Kingdom Hey everyone and welcome to a different Blog Post where I'll be exploring some of my favourite Romance films that I've come to enjoy watching. Now, to put things in perspective, I'm not really the ideal guy who goes out of his time to watch Romantic-centric films just for the fun of it. I mean, what typical guy does? As naive as this may sound coming from someone who previously studied film extensively through college and university and specifically did an essay on the cultural impact of British Rom-Com's of the 90's, varying from the films of Four Weddings and Funeral to Notting Hill , Romantic films generally have a knack of looking and being the same as one another. From the inception of the narrative to the end point, the 'Hollywood-isation' of said films can sometimes be numbing to watch and sit through, and does make you

Back To His Familiar Ways? From almost the very beginnings of cinema, the notion of 'stardom', within the many actors and actresses that have come and gone to grace the silver-screen, has been one of the medium's defining characteristics. In this day-and-age, it serves to be a construct that plays a special role in the medium's interaction with other parts of the media; attracting a wide-range of different audiences to market a particular film through the stature of a particular individual. However, while the relationship which cinema has forged with it's audiences has frequently been defined by the status of past and present film actors and actresses, it has to be said that the film directors filmic input and their discussions on specific controversial talking-points relating to cinema, have equally remained to be a primary marketing tool to place audiences in viewing. While non of his antics outside of film-making have ever conjured-up a perspective of his