Hasitha Fernando with ten great film scores that should have been Oscar nominated but weren’t… The awards season has officially drawn to a close, culminating with Sunday’s Academy Awards. And like every year, there are snubs and surprises galore interspersed with a handful of sure-fire predictable wins. The category of Best Original Score isn’t one […]
Movie Review – John Henry (2020)
John Henry, 2020. Directed by Will Forbes. Starring Terry Crews, Ken Foree, Ludacris, Joseph Julian Soria, and Jamil Valezquez. SYNOPSIS: A man hiding from his dark past sees it return to haunt him, leading to violent repercussions and a bloody conclusion. Terry Crews is an actor who can’t not be charismatic even if he tried. […]
Top 5 Underrated Stephen King Movie Adaptations
Hatitha Fernando with his top five underrated Stephen King movie adaptations… Whatever label you wish to slap on it- resurgence, revival or renaissance- there’s no escaping the inevitable cold-hard truth; Hollywood is finally taking the Horror genre seriously. Naturally, in the wake of this recent phenomenon, there has been a renewed interest in Stephen King’s […]
The Top Ten Film Scores Based On DC Comics Properties
Hasitha Fernando on the top ten film scores based on DC Comics properties… When it comes to big screen adaptations, DC Comics were way ahead of the curve than their Marvel counterparts. Of course, that’s not to say that films based on DC Comic properties have been consistent throughout, but as evidenced by Christopher Nolan’s […]
The Top Ten Film Scores of 2019
Hasitha Fernando on the top ten film scores of 2019… In terms of films both original and otherwise, 2019 proved to be quite a strong one. Although the box-office landscape was largely dominated by a plethora of comic-book films there were a great many creatively inspiring films like Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Rian Johnson’s Knives […]
The Top 15 Film Scores of the 2010s
Hasitha Fernando on the top film scores of the 2010s… To say a film’s score is an integral aspect of it is a gross understatement. The right score can do a lot of things. It can elevate a film from the realm of mediocrity to the extraordinary, breathe life into characters, augment the emotional impact […]
Comic Book Review – Blade Runner 2019 – Welcome to Los Angeles
Hasitha Fernando reviews Blade Runner 2019 – Welcome to Los Angeles… The 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner envisioned its world as a vastly dystopian one. From up on high the city of Los Angeles, where the story is set, is wondrous to behold. Canary-yellow flying taxis zip through starless night skies bathed in the neon-haze […]
Netflix Review – Marianne
Hasitha Fernando reviews the first season of the Netflix series Marianne… Marianne follows the tale of successful French horror writer Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois), who is dragged back to her hometown, when the dark entity that has haunted her childhood memories return, fifteen-years later. To say that I was a huge fan of The […]
Netflix Review – The Spy
Hasitha Fernando reviews The Spy… In this latest spy thriller that dropped from Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen plays the main role as newly recruited Mossad spy Eli Cohen and boy, is he something or what. In fact, if I were to sum up my review succinctly in three words it would be; Sacha Baron Cohen. […]
Netflix Review – Mindhunter Season 2
Hasitha Fernando reviews the second season of Mindhunter… Ever since I concluded watching season one of Mindhunter, I was fraught with impatience to return to its twisted sepulchral world, populated with depraved serial killers and the heinous deeds they commit. So, after twenty-two painstaking months of waiting and speculating, here we are. And now the […]
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