Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away, in which Shinto beliefs and Japanese imagination animate a story of spirits, purification, and balance.

Toy Story is a heartbreaking experience. At its core, it is about the death of a parent, attachment, acceptance, and letting go - but told through the eyes of a child, with imagination, fun, and humour.

Dune positions free will not as an innate human right, but as a fragile illusion sustained by culture, belief, and ignorance of deeper systems at work.

Originality is often mistaken for total invention, but in reality, the best stories are echoes — not replicas — of what came before.

Annihilation is a film deeply imbued with spiritual undertones, exploring the human condition through themes of disconnection,

This analysis of the film, Edward Scissorhands, analyses the film's gothic fairytale genre, and its theme of conformity