Pardon my Geopolitics
You’ve got to watch your geopolitical era when you’re making a genre-defining movie franchise. Just look at Rambo. With his superior military and tactical skills, policy isolationism and unilateral...
View ArticleZombie Terror
With zombies once more invading cinemas in 28 Weeks Later, it’s time to deconstruct one of cinema’s most endearing figures and ask just why we love the dead… Filmmakers and audiences love them because...
View ArticleThe Closed Circle
You read a lot of lists about films or ways of making them that changed the movies forever. You know the ones… Jaws (mass releasing), Blair Witch Project (DIY filmmaking), Pulp Fiction (cult fandom),...
View ArticleIt’s Not a Remake!
Ever noticed how trends come around again? At the end of the 1990s, you could walk across continents and not find a single horror film at a movie theatre. Then two guys running around the Maryland...
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