TheCinemaniacPerspective

Last weekend I was kind of in the mood for some little Indie pearl to get my emotions to work for a bit. As I had watched the first Harry Potter movie on a whim some time before and noticed how expressive the young actor's play already was at such a young time, I remembered seeing The perks of being a wallflower some years ago, the first role Emma Watson had after the HP series. So I picked that movie as the fodder for my emotionally craving brain. And what can I say, once again it fully served its purpose. The perks of being a wallflower is a 2012 coming-of-age movie directed and written by Steven Chbosky who also wrote the book it was based on. The circumstances that the writer of the original book also directs the following movie are already special on its own and judging by the resulting work it's a combination that should happen more often. The plot revolves around Charlie beautifully portrayed by Logan Lerman , a teenage boy suffering from depression and loneliness aft...

The highlights of my Halloween movie marathon For this year's Halloween I made a plan to shut myself in for the whole day, have a bunch of snacks and watch a metric shit ton of horror movies as it befits the city hermit that I am sometimes. I started off the night before the 31st with The Wailing by Na Hong-jin, a brilliant movie in its own way from South Korea. The plot visits a village where more and more people start to attack and slaugter their families after a mysterious Japanese man moved into the surrounding woods. This movie was already tense as hell at certain points and really well-made with outstanding actors but also quite weird especially in the beginning. It started of in a very comedic manor with a fairly clumsy and inept cop as the protagonist who constantly gets berated by his boss, is always late for work and seems to be frightened by his own shadow. I maybe want to do a review of this one on its own some time later and I definitely want to see it again for ...

Hello there! Let me introduce myself for a bit. I'll make it not that long hopefully. After all it isn't in my interest to bore you to death before the actual blog even started. So the first thing you might want to know about me is that I am 22 years old at the moment, just in case you already want to dismiss this blog because "how could such a young 'un possibly know anything at all" (Please read the last part picturing an old man saying it while rising his fist to the clouds). And yeah, I am actually sometimes a bit unsure about the value my opinions on movies have just because I simply haven't had that much time to learn about everything there is to movies, let alone to watch every important classic. I've never seen a Kurosawa or Tarkovsky movie, I have only seen two Hitchcock movies (namely Vertigo and The Birds ), none of the Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton movies, not even A Trip to the Moon , the most classic of all classics as it seems. ...

 Through some more or less strange circumstances I finally landed here, my head filled to the brim with pretty much useless half-knowledge about this or that just waiting to burst open and fill this blog with words and sentences and posts. I'm not sure how that will work out, I'm not even sure how it will look. If I will be able to structure my babbling at all or if it will seem like a madman wrote what the voices told him on the walls of his apartment, much to the dismay of his landlord. What I want to do here is constantly wobbling and changing and rearranging in my head. The only thing I'm sure about is that I want to talk about moving pictures. I love movies, I love TV series, I love video games and I love any kind of video with an artistic effort. And I want to share my love for this medium as it gives me so much joy and I couldn't help but notice that audiences today seem to get more and more cynical and tired of old tropes and clichès. Many people seem to have...