Reinventing the Joker, Again It’s hard to go in to watch Todd Phillips’ Joker without any pre-conceived thoughts and ideas.…
Growing Pains
Or: The Trouble with the Multi-Generational Narrative in IT CHAPTER 2
Film Review: Brightburn (2019)
A few weeks after a married couple discover and “adopt” a baby boy who fell from the sky in a spacecraft, the boy starts exhibiting dark and disturbing behaviour.
Critical Viewing: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
This week’s focus is on dialogue once again, and I finally got around to watching Yorgos Lanthimos’ extraordinary The Killing of a Sacred Deer, so this felt like an ideal candidate for this particular topic.
Critical Viewing: A Quiet Place (2018)
This week’s studies focus on dialogue, so there was no better film for me to discuss than John Krasinski’s superb…
Zero Draft 30: March 2018
Last month, I took part in Zero Draft 30 (ZD30 for short). For those who don’t know, it’s a challenge that…
Critical Viewing: Suburbicon (2017)
This week’s concentration is around spectatorship studies, the implied reader / viewer, and how audience expectations can be met or…
Critical Viewing: Annihilation (2018)
This week’s critical viewing comes in the form of Alex Garland’s excellent Annihilation. I only wish that it was showing in…
Critical Viewing: Wind River (2017)
This week’s focus is on critical questions – those questions that are raised during a film that keep you interested…
Critical Viewing: Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
This week’s focus is on how we can create audience identification with the protagonist of a film. In Goodbye Christopher…
