Entertainment
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...
10th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Magical Realism is a little known genre in which the film has magical elements but these are treated as mundane and normal in the environment.
Close...
9th Dec
| By Isaac Jordan
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This weekend saw Media City and Salford Quay taken over by a group of Daleks. Their cries of 'Exterminate' can be heard along the...
9th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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When I was a child, pretty much all films scared me and I certainly could not deal with horror. Now, as an adult, I'm a horror fan and very few films...
8th Dec
| By Matt Hartless
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Yesterday I wrote about the harrowing and mostly true account, Schindler's List. Today I'm writing about a film set in the same period that does the...
7th Dec
| By Harriet Mills
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It’s been a highly anticipated twelve month wait for our reggae fathers. So the frenzy surrounding Fat Freddy’s Drop in Manchester was potent on the...