Storytelling in the bulk of genre cinema follows a singular protagonist’s perspective. It makes sense for actions and horrors to streamline the formula to ‘rebels vs empire’ or ‘teenagers vs serial killer’ and focus the direction on the set pieces, with critically acclaimed pictures implementing underlying themes for more engaged audience members. Traditional Westerns are […]
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My passion for cinema began during adolescence and grew through IMDb’s Top 250 Movies list. I remembered entries one through twenty by heart, often reciting them during spirited debates of people’s favourites. Martin Scorese’s The Departed was always my go-to pick, coming in at a respectable 45th place – not as basic as Forrest Gump,
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The Coppola name comes with significant weight. Nicholas Cage removed it to differentiate from his uncle; Jason Schwartzmann flies under the radar within Wes Anderson pictures. Factor in the male-dominated film industry, and there must have been an enormous amount of pressure on Sofia Coppola’s shoulders preparing for her feature debut. Even with filmmaking in
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It’s fair to say that Bhutan is quite a unique place. Landlocked between China, India and the Himalayas, they are one of three countries to have a dragon on their flag and the only government to measure wealth by Gross National Happiness. In 1999, restriction on television and internet was lifted, bringing forth the rise
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Jean’s (Rosy McEwen) on the ball. Rampant discrimination stoked from the HIV/AIDS epidemic paved the way for Margaret Thatcher’s government to enact Section 28: a series of laws prohibiting local authorities “promoting homosexuality”. Promotion included, but was not limited to, publishing material that supported same-sex relationships and teaching state school students that homosexuality is an
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The following article takes place over the course of sixteen hours and thirty-nine minutes, starting on the evening of 10th December 2022. 9:06pm As the country commiserates being knocked out of a tournament I didn’t watch because of “moral reasons” (Scotland supporter), my evening is just about to begin. Created by Bristol Black Horror Club
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In the early days of cinema, approximately five hundred ‘race films’ were produced – movies featuring an all-black cast shown only in minority neighbourhoods. The majority were written and directed by white people in an attempt to improve race relations, yet still contained stereotypes commonly found in other forms of media at the time. Less
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There was an air of anticipation when I arrived at Watershed for the advanced screening of Aftersun. Many of the attendees had seen the rave reviews pour in from the London Film Festival; headlines touted a landmark directorial debut showcasing masterful acting. Upon exiting the cinema, anticipation transformed into hesitancy in trying to fully process
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On 11th September 1973, the Chilean Army’s Commander-in-Chief Augusto Pinochet seized political power from the President Salvador Allende in a coup d’état,‘ liberating’ the country from the world’s first democratically-elected Marxist leader. After Allende’s success in November 1970, the CIA (under instruction from Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger) spent $8 million to create the greatest
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During the bulk of my secondary school history education, I remember only focusing primarily on World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. Eventually, we would go through topics of prohibition before reaching World War II but, by this time, it was summer and everyone’s energy was spent. Therefore, it’s fair to say that my
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