The Rabbitte Perspective

Poetic Visualisation Since the inception of cinema itself, the sci-fi genre has always provoked to make us think and deliberate on ideas and premises that subtly reflect our own cultural and social anxieties. Indeed, from Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon,  that naturally eclipsed and astonished audiences in wonderment at the time of its release in 1902, to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner which both respectively imbue themes and motifs that parallel social thinking and have each marked a new milestone in the aforesaid genre, science-fiction has consistently allowed itself to meander into ideas and story-lines that not only provide an awe of escapist reality, but establish motifs that are seemingly relatable and engaging amongst the dystopian backdrops that are displayed. This is something that Alex Garland has effortlessly done in not only his first feature as a film-maker in the form of Ex Machina , but also carries forward ...

Long Live The King? 😼 As stagnant as it may seem to many that simply discussing the ever-changing iconography of the superhero genre is a nonsensical and tiresome discourse, considering how noticeable this 'change' is easy to perceive through recent filmic and televised products, it's interesting non-the-less to see how vast the aforesaid genre has remodelled itself in recent years. Indeed, from Marvel's inception of its Cinematic Universe, which began with Jon Favreau's Iron Man , to the super-heroic televised shows being made for the mainstream, such as The Flash , Supergirl , Jessica Jones and Daredevil to name a few, the superhero genre has undoubtedly grown within this contemporary age and serves as a platform that has manifested different tendencies from unrelated genre's and has occupied film-makers to allow their distinctive styles to be displayed. In recent years, Marvel have been the best into integrating this ideal, by showcasing films in th...

The Right Sought Of Cheese? Cheese. By definition, it's a food that's made from pressed curds of milk left to ripen and age. Figurative Cheese however? Well, this a formality that binds together overly hackneyed and quintessential conventions that create moments of either hilarity or grief. Indeed, Cheesy feature-films in general stand apart from 'normal' theatrical releases. They revel in their ridiculous and overblown narratives, corny one-liners and absurd stunt sequences that imbue conflicting emotions of amusement and disappointment. These types of films are not always 'bad' features per se, but our collective and cultural understanding of this specific breed of films makes us recognise these arguably guilty pleasure movies in a distinguishable and obvious light. One film in particular that complies with these aforementioned tendencies is Simon West's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ; one of the more recognisable and arguably acclaimed video-game live-ac...