Tag: Yaa Mensah-King
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‘The Crimes of the Future’ Are Under Your Skin
Endowed with age and experience, Cronenberg shares his most refined vision of the future in his 2022 film Crimes of the Future.
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Keeping It Light With Briann BC
Whether it’s the people around you, a failed relationship, or the country you live in, it all informs who you are or who you want to be. To Mamelodi, all of it is worth making music about.
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Keeping Score Between ‘Dune’ and Creative Drought
By Yaa Mensah-King Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film Dune is a film made out of the love of Frank Herbert’s universe, originally portrayed in the writer’s 1965 book. Both Villeneuve and the film’s composer, Hans Zimmer, were enamored by the story from a young age. In their youth, both individually developed a vision for Dune, and in Zimmer’s case, a sound for what the final, realized universe could be. The unification of their concepts paid off tremendously with the film’s success at the 94th Academy Awards, where Zimmer was awarded his second Oscar for Best Original Score, 25 years after his…
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What About US: A Life Suffocated by American Media
Throughout my whole life, I have only heard of one local film being screened; that is where my problem arises. I’m not anti-American, but why can’t non-American media be shared as expansively as its American counterparts?