Writing

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.

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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”

I watched the 30^th 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.

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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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I meant to write these a while ago after a couple of amusing incidents, but I didn’t get round to writing them. So, uh, yeah, that’s the story. Is this a film fight? No, It’s an abridged poetry fight. But it’s a Friday, so…yeah. Roll with it.

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