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I’ve always been a movie goer and thus when a good film comes by, I can vouch for its 5-star rating.
The movie I’m going to review is Brave Story, yes I know it sounds cheesy and all. But please, don’t be fooled by its simple title.
Brave Story is about a protagonist named Wataru with everything that an 11-year old needs in life, until it all comes crashing down. Left alone in the world with a father who abandoned his family, followed by a mother who is lying in bed …

Simplicity is beauty. Hayao Miyazaki must have had that in mind when he produced the animation My Neighbor Totoro. Unlike most of Studio Ghibli’s earlier films, it is less action packed. However, My Neighbor Totoro makes up for that by telling a story that is simple, comfortably paced and relates to the audience on a personal level.
The film evokes both the wonders and terrors one experiences as a child. When a child becomes an adult, things would never be the same. My Neighbor Totoro invokes nostalgia in its audience about …

Alexander Mackendrick is one of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry. He was one of the finest and least typical directors at Ealing Studios. Perhaps best known for the four comedies, Whiskey Galore! (1949) and The Ladykillers (1955), satire, with The Man in the White Suit (1951), romance, with Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). He made there, he nonetheless created films of a rare blackness, marked by a pessimistic – albeit witty – vision of human cruelty, corruptibility, and self-obsession.
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Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is a monumental work that blends cinema, philosophy and music in a seamless whole. Kieslowski started his career shooting documentaries and later became associated with the cinema of moral anxiety, which grouped several Polish directors, including ‘Andrzej Wajda’, and aimed to depict the conditions of Poles under communism. His best known work was the three colors series Red, White, and Blue. Red brought him an Academy Award nomination for best director in 1995, Blue shared the Golden Lion at Venice in 1993, and White …

Nicolas Roeg is a British film director known for breaking the conventions of editing and his ability to use atmosphere well, Roeg stretched the boundaries of what could be done with film.
He is famed for stringing together disjointed stories in which everything was semi-coherent until the very end, where a crucial piece of information was given to help make sense of the story. He has a foreboding sense of atmosphere that is still influencing the directors of today, and his original approach to editing resulted in some of the …