It Comes At Night and Post-Horror Post-Mortem
The Guardian recently ran an article proclaiming the birth of “post-horror“, its chief example being Trey Edward Shults’ It Comes At Night. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus […]
Category Archives: Blogs
The Goblin Awards 2016
More reputable than the Golden Globes and shorter than the Oscars, it’s time for the Goblin Awards, our annual antidote to the Academy’s public onanism ceremony. 1. Most Awkward Moment The most awkward […]
The Goblin Awards 2015
Roll out the red dresses and put on your fanciest carpet, it’s time for the Goblin Awards, our annual antidote to the Meryl Steep awards Oscars. 1. The Donald Trump Award […]
Blog: Is Deadpool the new Mrs Brown’s Boys?
As Deadpool performs beyond expectations and exceeds most other solo superhero movies at the box office, it’s worth wondering what the secret to its success is. The most obvious answer is […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Razor Glove Order
Star Wars fans have introduced the Machete Order, a way of watching the films in sequence that helpfully cuts out The Phantom Menace (but weirdly still includes Attack of the Clones). A similar system can […]
Blog: Stadium Scenes
Even outside the sporting genre, some of cinema’s finest finales and most stirring spectacles take place in sports stadiums – or stadia, for all our Latin readers. So here are […]
Blog: Morgan Freeman – Ageing Scienceman
Russian scholar Vladmir Propp famously came up with seven character types that appear in fiction. However, as Propp came up with his theory based on fairytales in 1946, he missed […]
