Author Archives: Bolaji O

From Entebbe’s palm-poked sandy beaches to the traffic-clogged streets of capital city Kampala, movie theatres in Uganda, operated by Century Cinemax, are flooding with customers again. At Acacia Mall in the capital, moviegoers queue outside the cinema for tickets, contributing … Continued

Plans are underway across Russian cinemas to show high-quality pirated copies of the much anticipated “Avatar: The Way of Water,” a blatantly illegal move that would be a point of new departure for the exhibition sector in the country. Source: … Continued

In its exploration of themes like paranoia, voyeurism, and loneliness, Hitchcock’s Rear Window strikes a familiar chord with the social media climate we live in today. Source: Why Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ Mirrors Today’s Social Media Age

Chinese filmmakers Hu Sang and Xiaoning Feng go to great pains to conflate China and Tibet as simpatico cultures unified against the West in these samples of Chinese Cinema filmed through a Communist lens. Source: Chinese Cinema Through a Communist … Continued

The 2009 hit film Avatar was a watershed event for Imax Corp., and the release of the long-awaited sequel has underlined what investors see as a strong case for shares of the large-screen theater chain at a time when movie-going … Continued

For decades, Deakins’ eye has been one of the keenest in movies. It’s not easy to pinpoint what makes a film’s cinematography identifiably Deakins’ work and yet it’s obvious. Something about how seamlessly the images connect. A sometimes wry perspective. … Continued