advent calendar
14th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: The story told through different timelines and intertwining philosophies in Cloud AtlasIf you can't decide what genre you want to watch, but want something deep and adventurous, Could Atlas is without doubt a film you need to watch this Christmas.
13th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Focusing the camera on the background highlights the paranoia in Children of MenParanoid fiction explores the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by the forces of power. Most conspiracy films will fall into...
12th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Se7en wraps a mystery up so people can barely comprehendIf you want a truly bleak and disturbing, yet highly compelling and ballsy murder mystery, Se7en is definitely a film you should watch this Christmas.
11th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: The Guard heightens the crime genre by setting it in apathetic rural IrelandIf you want a crime thriller FBI movie without any of the macho posturing endemic to the genre, and with plenty of hilarity and strangely touching scenes, the Guard is a film you need to watch this Christmas.
10th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Stalker ponders the mundanity of our existence despite the magic in its worldMagical Realism is a little known genre in which the film has magical elements but these are treated as mundane and normal in the environment....
9th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Alien is the perfect example of how to create suspense in horrorWhen 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...
8th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Inglourious Basterds takes history and puts it through a blender to create its own universeYesterday 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...
7th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Schindler’s List takes an unapologetically bleak look at the history of the HolocaustToday’s genre is the historical film. These films present themselves as mostly true accounts of an event or person’s life, whereas historical fiction is a...
6th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: The disobedient fantasy world of Pan’s Labyrinth is exquisitely described through its imageryI don’t need to hesitate when somebody asks me what my favourite film of all time is. There is no shadow of a doubt that...
5th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless
Film Advent Calendar: Waltz With Bashir uses amnesia to drive its plot in a dramatisation of PTSDThe drama genre is defined as being more realistic than other genres and what could be more realistic than a depiction of somebody remembering true...