beauty

Evolving Beauty Standards: How Cinema Reflects and Shapes Body Image Over Decades
Evolving Beauty Standards: How Cinema Reflects and Shapes Body Image Over Decades

Beauty has been the focus of the film industry since the early 20th century. We take a look at how its changed through film over time.

Beauty: The Path Through The End Of The World
Beauty: The Path Through The End Of The World

Mad Max: Fury Road and Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts are thematically tied together with their messages of hope and rebirth.

THE STAGGERING GIRL: Living In A Material World
THE STAGGERING GIRL: Living In A Material World

The objective of Luca Guadagnino’s experimental short The Staggering Girl is up for debate, which won’t be a problem for long-time admirers of the auteur’s style or share the same inherent love for high fashion.

DUMPLIN': Pure, Dolly Parton-flavoured Comfort Food
DUMPLIN’: Pure, Dolly Parton-flavoured Comfort Food

As if to reject beauty’s notoriously food-phobic reputation once and for all, Dumplin’ is pure visual comfort food.

ZOOM: A Fractured Comedy On Self-Identity
ZOOM: A Fractured Comedy On Self-Identity

From up-and-coming director Pedro Morelli and first-time screenwriter Matt Hansen, Zoom is a fascinating fantasy drama about artistic identity. Tracking the lives of three central protagonists, Morelli miraculously creates a strange, circuitous world wherein everything is connected. Despite seemingly existing within the confines of each other’s imaginative works of fiction, comic book artist Emma Boyle (Alison Pill), movie director Edward Deacon (Gael García Bernal), and aspiring novelist Michelle (Mariana Ximenes) soon bleed into each other’s codependent realities.

THE NEON DEMON: Picturesque Carnality
THE NEON DEMON: Picturesque Carnality

There is offense to be taken with the frame and exterior of physical bodies. Beauty, it has been said, is in the eye of the beholder. Yet, one can’t help but feel that, since the rise of feminism and the development of the male-gaze interpretation, almost all appreciation for the aesthetics of a given film has been entirely lost.

Age of Adaline
THE AGE OF ADALINE: A Character Study Of The Fairy Tale Princess

Immortality is a myth. This is a fact not only based on a reality standpoint, but also literarily. Ask anybody the first thing which crosses their minds when discussing the subject, and most likely mythical beings such as wizards, witches, vampires or superheroes would top the list.