The Art of Filming Live Music
Watching The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think caused me to pontificate about the various ways professionals try to film live music. Advertisements
Category: Film Editorials
Cloverfield and the Depreciating Value of the Mid-Budget Genre Movie
How the Cloverfield series has come to represent Hollywood’s attitudes towards the mid-budget genre movie.
Three Billboards and Race as Window-Dressing
The “Three Billboards is racist” scrutiny comes from certain viewers doing what Martin McDonagh did not: recognising that racism is not a meaningless character quirk.
The Obligatory “Is Netflix Killing Movies?” Piece
Short answer: no. Long answer: no, except also kind of…
Ingrid Goes West‘s Satire is Two-Fold
Where most tech satires focus only on the tech, Ingrid Goes West reaches wider.
The DC Cinematic Universe is Beyond Saving
It’s time to accept that these movies aren’t going to get better, and they’re not going to become interestingly bad again.
The Playlist Movie is Older Than You Think
Films like Baby Driver and Guardians of the Galaxy may be drawing attention to them, but Playlist Movies have been a dominating force in Teen Films for decades.
All Notorious Eyez on Compton
What is it that Straight Outta Compton does right but All Eyez on Me gets so very, very wrong?
The Premature Party
“And out of the elephant’s trunk… confetti.”
Rogue One Understands the Harsh Truth About Rebellion
Rebellions may be built on hope, but they’re only effective when paired with action.
