: About Me

Sometimes we develop an emotional connection with a film and its characters before we are old enough even to understand it. The child inside me will always weep over the death of Charlotte in Charlotte's Web, or Mufasa in The Lion King; from an early age what brings us to tears in a film is the notion of loss and isolation. This law is echoed throughout Hollywood history when audiences were captivated by Rose's loss of Jack in Titanic, or when Antonio Banderas sat by Tom Hank's side as he faded away in Philadelphia. Film's prey upon our most instinctual emotions - emotions that can be magn...