Cookie Culters
The Descent
05/05/2015 20:08
Women in horror (or filmmaking general) have had it bad for a very very long time. There is no denying that we were just paper dolls made out of the cliché handbook on how to do horror. If we weren’t virginal and heroic, we had sex then died. If we were the villain, we were scorned by the hands of...
Don't Look Now
29/04/2015 19:14
Remakes are becoming a dime a dozen this tentative cinematic age. Despite the odd few that are excellent, superb and amazing - so much so that you barely knew it was a remake - the chances are that any bombshell landing about a modern adaptation of an old film is met with many angry fists turning...
Empire Records
25/04/2015 11:19
Teen movies of the nineties had extremely similar themes and narrative nuances that make them unforgettable in our time. The tartan mini-skirts, crop t-shirts clad ladies wooed by the curtained boys with baggy pants and shirts all set to a soundtrack of grunge and pop punk music are distinct...
The Devil's Rejects
15/04/2015 21:22
There are some movies that exist purely to disgust. That is there role in life. There aren’t there to tell evocative stories with bleak violent overtones. They don’t exist to comment on society in a wickedly satirical way. Sometimes violent movies are there to entertain and to titillate in the...
Clueless
08/04/2015 16:45
Alarming trends in films come and go with different levels of furore but one that tickled my childhood so much so that I wrote an
essay about it in GCSE English was the adaptation of Shakespeare and his writing kin into teen film spectacles. 10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming...
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