Entertainment
20th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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A Clockwork Orange was and still is one of the most controversial films ever released.
One of the main impacts the film had, much to Kubrick's...
19th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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I did not like Blade Runner the first time I saw it, because I didn't get it, and couldn't stand its slow pace.
Once I knew the vague outlines of...
18th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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In 1984, George Orwell protrayed a police state that controlled its citizens every move and thought, and imprisoned those it couldn't.
In Brazil,...
17th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Nowadays, with all the money in subsciption based content producers, long-running TV series with high production values are ten-a-penny.
This is...
16th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Jim Jarmusch describes his filmmaking method as rather like that of a music composer. With this film, I can understand what he means.
The music,...
15th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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When I tackled horror before, I went for suspense, ie there's something scary and we don't know where it is. Psychological thrillers take on many of...
14th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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The characters in Could Atlas spend a lot of the runtime discussing their philosophies on things important to them in their timelines.
This gives...
13th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Paranoid fiction explores the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by the forces of power.
Most conspiracy films will fall...
12th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Mysteries usually answer one or more of three questions - who did it, how it was done or why it was done.
Most murder mysteries answer one or all of...
11th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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I talked about how Martin McDonagh made In Bruges very silly, yet bitingly real at the same time. His brother, John Michael McDonagh did the exact...