I was recently bamboozled online trying to search for the Bake Off start date this year when I was presented with an array of hokum. So, in the spirit of that experience, here are some films where the true world is hard to decipher.
Continue reading “Friday Film Fight: Unreality Films”Films About Filmmaking
With Jane Schoenbrun‘s horror love-letter Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma out in cinemas and Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas just arriving, films about films seem to be a hot topic recently, so I thought I’d take a look at a few other flicks where directors start bringing a bit of meta into the screenplay.
Continue reading “Films About Filmmaking”Friday Film Fight: Spider-Men
Brand New Day’s bringing in the big bucks at the box office, but quantity doesn’t necessarily equal quantity. Here’s my ranking of the friendly neighbourhood dude’s best and worst offerings.
Continue reading “Friday Film Fight: Spider-Men”Begbie and the Bad Guy
I watched the 30th anniversary screening of Trainspotting a few days ago, and it made me reconsider the importance of creating a cinematic character that people love to hate. Here are a few thoughts on Robert Carlisle’s big bad. And some other evil folks, too.
Continue reading “Begbie and the Bad Guy”Seven Summer Films
Those heat waves keep on coming, even though autumn should be on its merry way soon. In the meantime, hop on down to your small screen to view some films that you can’t think about without associating them with some pretty intense heat (no, Heat doesn’t feature on this list).
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