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“Did You Hear the Rumour?”: The Immersive World of ‘Isle of Dogs’

by Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott | May 5, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

For a certain type of person, the past month has most likely been filled with Isle of Dogs fever....

Podcast Spotlight: ‘You Must Remember This’

by Sophie Davies | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Spotlight

To listen in to You Must Remember This head to their website or download directly from ITunes You...

International Women’s Day: The Badass Women of Horror

by Jessie Carpenter | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Women have been raped, abused, and butchered in horror films for as long as permitted by...

Putting the ‘Smart’ in Independent Film: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ and ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’

by Laura Aiton | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Independent films are those which defy the conventions of traditional Hollywood cinema. ‘Smart’...

Searching for Bodhisattva Guanyin in ‘Journey to the West’

by Stephanie Carta | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Before I read Journey to the West, I was intrigued by the syncretic worldview common to Confucian...

‘Girlfriends’ at the BFI: Curating Female Relationships

by Matilda Payne | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

The BFI is now moving into the second month of a season dedicated to film depictions of female...

‘The Red Turtle’ and ‘S-Town’: When Men Live as Islands

by Matilda Payne | Oct 23, 2017 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

It is fairly likely that anyone reading this who is familiar with either the animated film The Red...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Prisoners’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Oct 20, 2017 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

I first saw Prisoners during its theatrical run back in 2013. It was a day that sticks out in my...

“I’m not in the business. I am the business”: The Vertovian Replicant in ‘Blade Runner’

by Rory McAteer | Oct 5, 2017 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film

Blade Runner (1982) and Soviet montage documentary The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) are two...

Narcissism and Criminality on Wall Street: the Sociology of ‘American Psycho’

by Sorin Floti | Sep 4, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

Director Mary Harron depicts an extraordinary criminal in American Psycho (2000). He is...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Sep 3, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Over the last few weeks I’ve done quite a few of these Picks of Online Film, and to be honest you...

In Focus: ‘Stephen King on Screen’ at the BFI

by Alex Killeen | Sep 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

In accordance with the upcoming seventieth birthday of Stephen King, author extraordinaire, the...

Cinema and History: Is Christopher Nolan just a big old Romantic?

by Dr Linda Kiernan | Aug 24, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Interstellar Getty: ‘So you have an idea?’ Murph: ‘No. I have a . . . feeling’. Christopher...

‘Okja’ and ‘Raw’: Meat in the Movies

by Liam Taft | Aug 10, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

In 2008, PETA released their list of the “Top 10 Movies That Make You Go Meatless.”[1] Featured on...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘It Follows’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Aug 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

There’s a theory in horror film circles that there’s two types of fear: horror-fear and...

She-Hulk: Marvel’s Wonder Woman

by Rocco Thompson | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

As Wonder Woman lasso-of-truthed into theaters on June 2nd, film and comic geeks alike waited with...

The Pick of Online Film: XX

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Jul 23, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

The horror genre often serves as a crucible for the film industry; countless directors, writers...

Highlights from The Edinburgh International Film Festival

by Alex Killeen | Jul 16, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

In its seventy-first iteration this year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival strived to...

Screening ‘Julius Caesar’: In Conversation with Phyllida Lloyd

by Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance

Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...

Dog People: The Legacy of Anthropomorphic Animals in Disney’s ‘101 Dalmatians’

by Rory McAteer | Jul 9, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“Imamura thought that Western, and especially American, animated films had a mythic quality to...

The Pick of Online Film: Escape from Tomorrow

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Jun 18, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

To watch Escape from Tomorrow (2013) is to watch a film that shouldn’t exist. Not that there’s...

Dern Night of The Soul: David Lynch and His Unsung Muse

by Rocco Thompson | Jun 11, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“Laura Dern is one of the all-time great actresses. She can play anything. And she’s just so…a...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Coherence’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Jun 4, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

One of the great joys in life for film buffs is finding those little known gems that flew under...

Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl: Food and Femininity in ‘Raw’ and ‘The Vegetarian’

by Katie Goh | Jun 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

“Nope nope nope,”[1] said the tabloids, disgusted, “French horror film Raw has inspired such...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Cape Fear’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Apr 24, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

For this week’s Pick of Online film, we’ve got a two-for-one special for you: two different films...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Apr 11, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

It seems hard to believe, but Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is now over a decade old. This...

Take It Away! It’s Horrible!: Bette Davis and Familial Terror

by Rocco Thompson | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“I was a legendary terror. I was insufferably rude and ill-mannered in the cultivation of my...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Y Tu Mamá También’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 27, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Alfonso Cuarón’s directorial career has already spanned 30 years, in which time he’s made...

Love and Loneliness Under the ‘Moonlight’

by Alex Killeen | Mar 24, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

A few weeks ago Moonlight won an Oscar. You probably heard about it. Or you probably heard more...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 12, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

H.R. Giger is an example of an artist whose work has become incredibly well known without him...

Nothing New Here: ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ and Female Desire

by Beth Longman | Mar 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

The final image with which we are left in “Fifty shades of Grey” is of Anastasia Steele, hair...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘The Babadook’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 5, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

I first came across The Babadook (2014) at university; I was studying a course dedicated to the...

Undermining Morality: Exploring Sex in The Cinema of Paul Verhoeven

by Rocco Thompson | Feb 28, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my...

The Pick of Online Film: ‘Spring’

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Feb 26, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

This is the first article in a regular series on culturised aiming to give some much deserved...

A Dying Breed? Originality and the Oscars.

by Nathaniel Gingrich | Feb 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Here we are again. Stuck in the doldrums of late January/early February, affectionately known to...

Choosing Life in the 21st Century: Masculinity in T2 Trainspotting

by Alex Killeen | Feb 4, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

Going into T2 Trainspotting, our last glimpses of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, were when we...

Taken Away to La La Land: A Musical for Everyone

by Alex Killeen | Jan 31, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Having tied for the most ever amount of Oscar nominations, La La Land is certainly captivating the...

The Problem With Sherlock: Bond in Baker Street

by Jordan Cook | Jan 17, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

On Sunday 15th January the BBC aired the final installment of the latest (and, potentially, the...

You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bomb: Jaws, Them! and Nuclear Guilt

by Alex Killeen | Jan 14, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

The science fiction B-Movies in 1950s America heralded a new way of envisioning American, used in...

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