Insidiots
Cast your minds back to this time last month. David Cameron welcomed the proposal of 10 year prison sentences for benefit frauds, people all over the country stood in queues […]
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The Wolf Man and Other Tails
At one point during the screening of 1941’s The Wolf Man, the guy in front of me dropped some popcorn on the floor, scooped it up and ate it. It’s as […]
Blog: We Saw Them Here First
There are lots of great actors out there who aren’t always in great films. Robert De Niro’s most successful film isn’t The Godfather 2, Taxi Driver or Raging Bull but Meet […]
Mental Illness in Film
How various groups, from women and racial groups, to LGBT people, nationalities and people of differing political views, are represented in films is a topic of much discussion, including on […]
Expendables 3 Watch: “Kelsey Grammer? Seriously?”
The Expendables series has an ability to create rumours like no other, due to the fact the appeal of the films is almost entirely in their casting. Today we were […]
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Recently I looked at films which have central characters accused of crimes they didn’t commit, which appeal to our fear of something similar happening to us, thus showing the importance […]
Blog: SHOUTING!
I believe it was Lulu who said “Weeeeeeeeeeell…you know you make me wanna shout.” Shouting can vent anger, assert authority and assist the hard of hearing. When someone shouts you […]
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
The idea that until guilt is proven, a criminal suspect should be assumed not to have committed a crime, underpins our legal system. It protects the innocent and avoids the […]
Is First Blood an anti war film?
First Blood follows John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran searching for one of his old army pals. The people of a small town don’t take kindly to Rambo, however, as the local police arrest […]
Brazil
Much in the same way it’s uninteresting to review a film by Hitchcock or Kubrick and describe it as good, it’s equally a statement of the obvious to describe a […]
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