Cinema is Emotion

Punny God Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk was never meant to be just a digital version of a giant superhero. From his…

Ben Affleck approached Batman as a man who had already spent years carrying the weight of being Bruce Wayne.…

A quick little walk The most interesting thing about About Time is that it did not begin as a time travel…

In House of the Dragon, the dragons were deliberately designed and animated as animals rather than simply…

My Oxford Year was filmed extensively across real Oxford locations, including Magdalen College, St Hugh’s…

He noticed it every time What makes Fleabag so unusual is that its fourth wall is not just a joke or a way…

The ending of Inception is often treated as a question of whether Cobb is dreaming, but Christopher Nolan…

The Sixth Sense is one of those films that quietly changes when you watch it a second time. M. Night…

Eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt returns as Cliff Booth, but the…

Life Is Beautiful is built around one of cinema’s most difficult tonal shifts. Roberto Benigni spends the…

Will Smith’s Genie in Aladdin was not a practical makeup performance or simply a blue version of the actor.…

Anthony Hopkins appears in The Silence of the Lambs for only a little over 16 minutes, yet his performance…

Silo is built around one terrifying idea: humanity has survived, but only underground. Around 10,000 people…

Before Matthew McConaughey became an Oscar winner, his very first screen role was a reenactment on Unsolved…

Peter Cullen did not simply give Optimus Prime a powerful voice. He gave him a sense of humanity. When…

Remain brings together an unusual combination of romance and supernatural mystery, with Jake Gyllenhaal…

Peter Parker had spent his whole life trying to save people. But when Gwen fell, there was nothing left he…

Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” was more than a song or a music video. Released in 1983, the nearly 14 minute…

Godzilla Minus One brought Godzilla back to his roots, placing the story in postwar Japan and making the…

Captain America: The Winter Soldier feels different from a typical superhero film because it plays like a…

Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the events of Godzilla Minus One, as Japan struggles…

Robin Williams had a rare ability to make comedy feel completely spontaneous while bringing the same…

Let the time pass Mobius M. Mobius looks like one of the TVA’s most ordinary employees, but that is exactly…

Paul Mescal’s performance as William Shakespeare in Hamnet is powerful precisely because he doesn’t play…