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The 2014 Oscars and the ‘Victim Narrative’

Author and film critic Bret Easton Ellis has been talking recently on his online podcast series about ‘Victim Narratives.’ Ellis identifies a trend in modern cinema toward the ‘cult of victimization,’...

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The McConaissance

  If you go on YouTube you can find a video of Matt Damon on the David Letterman show talking about Matthew McConaughey from about four years ago. During the interview, Damon does a spot-on impression...

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Death of the multi-cam

According to everyone, were in a ‘Golden Age’ of TV, whatever that means. Go into any smoking area sober and you’ll overhear at least 3 conversations about Breaking Bad. The last 5 years has seen a...

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Are you enjoying comfortably?

  There was concern leading up to the Academy Awards this year of whether or not Cate Blanchett – a dead cert for a while – would receive the Oscar for best actress on account of the resurgence of...

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Video Nasties

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was mired in a didactic debate that postponed its planned release. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) couldn’t decide what the public should and should...

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Keeping the Faith

2014 sees the release of not one but two biblical blockbusters. Darren Aronofsky’s Noah opened in cinemas last Friday, with Russell Crowe as the most famous boatbuilder of all time, and later this...

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Feature: The Cornerhouse – A HOME Away From Home

For those university students who regularly attend the palatial hub of art and film known as the Manchester Cornerhouse, it never fails to amaze them how few people have been to or even know of it....

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Feature: Twenty Years of Pulp Fiction

It’s more than adequate to describe Quentin Tarantino’s entry to the world of cinema as an explosion of cosmic proportions. Few directors in the history of motion pictures have managed to achieve such...

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Feature: American TV Autumn Preview

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The leaves are not yet brown, the pumpkins are not yet ripened, the fun size Mars bars are not yet half price. Oh yes, you guessed it—it’s TV premier season....

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Feature: Grimmfest 2014

THURSDAY First up was The Herd. Billed as ‘a vegan feminist horror’, the 20-minute film was a bloody difficult watch. Set in a world where human breast milk is a commodity, women are inseminated, kept...

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Feature: Fincher’s Feminine Flicks

Women are underrepresented in Hollywood. There, I said it. A vast majority of decent lead roles in major movies are written for men, and a wildly disproportionate number of notable directors are male....

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Feature: Hollywood and Science

“We look at Hollywood now, I mean, can you imagine Hollywood producing a film with such weight as 2001: A Space Odyssey? I guess we get the cinema we deserve; we’re looking into the mirror. It’s very...

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Feature: The Madness in the Method

Method acting is defined as a ‘group of techniques used by actors to create in themselves the thoughts and feelings of their characters, in order to create lifelike performances’. Method acting derived...

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Feature: Should the Sci be Greater than the Fi?

From Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and its excruciatingly detailed interpretation of the delicate mechanisms of space flight (so intricate some consider the film a cinematic ruse to test Stan’s...

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Feature: Directors Don’t Deserve Special Chairs

We are now firmly in the 2014/15 film award season, a controversial time in itself, as film nerds all around the world cry out about how their favourite actor, director, or film of the year has been...

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Oscar Predictions 2015: Who Will/Should Win

Best Picture: The Nominees: American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash. Will Win: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood has been...

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Feature: Sex On Screen

I think it’s safe to say most people have seen sex on screen. From bare breasts to full frontal genitalia, there is a lot to say about films that have sex in them, as to pornography with a well-plotted...

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Feature: Hollywood’s Three Amigos

It’s a somewhat rare occurrence that such a small group of artists can generate such vast ripples across their medium, but this is exactly what these three Mexican filmmakers—branded with the rather...

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Top 5: Films of the Year (2014/15)

5) Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic may have been divisive, but enough of our contributors loved it for it to swipe fifth place on our list. Full of powerful performances, stunning visuals...

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Feature: The American Dreamer

“Hell, if somethin’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” This is an incontrovertible mantra, and one which was espoused by father of modern journalism Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on many occasions, not...

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