The sorority slasher is back. We’re still in the Greek system, but with a decidedly feminist spin for this latest adaptation of *Black Christmas *directed by Sophie Takal and starring Imogen Poots. Click here to read the review in full. 56 4375 Viewsblack christmas Data scraped from web archives. Preserved for the cinematography community.
In 2019, the Townsend Agency has gone global. There are Angels and Bosleys all over the world, using their female allure to do the work that law enforcement can’t. A new gang of girls is introduced: Kristen Stewart is Sabina, a rich kid joker who went off the rails before being recruited; Ella Balinska is Jane, a tall and focused fighting machine who previously worked for Mi6; and their new client is Elena, played by Aladdin’s Naomi Scott, a programmer being hunted down because of her work on Calisto, a new sustainable form of energy that can be weaponised in the wrong hands. ...
Adapted from Suzanne Collins’ wildly successful trilogy of books, The Hunger Games movies have become modern day staples in the arena of young-adult stories set in a dystopian future. High concept, with quality filmmaking talent and an iconic protagonist at the core, the saga of Katniss Everdeen and her journey to leading the revolution of Panem spanned four films, released annually between 2012 and 2015. Click to read the feature in full. ...
For the first chunk of Last Christmas, self-proclaimed hot mess Kate (Emilia Clarke) is constantly dragging a big, battered suitcase along behind her. Flitting from the bed of a one night stand to a friend’s spare room and eventually, reluctantly, her family home, she literally carries her baggage around each day. The case ricochets over the London cobbles, following her heeled boots; a hardly subtle metaphor for the unpacked trauma that is weighing her down. ...
Around halfway through Zombieland: Double Tap, Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus says “I don’t want to toot my own horn”. It’s in reference to his ‘rules’ for surviving Zombieland – a quirk that helped the first film feel so unique, but that is about to be replayed to death so violently in this belated sequel that clearly horn-tooting was exactly what the filmmakers intended. Click here to read the review in full. ...
If there’s one thing that ‘Orange Is the New Black’ has taught us, it’s that not everybody gets a happy ending. Throughout the six previous seasons of this iconic, sometimes ground-breaking, sometimes controversial show, we’ve seen characters come and go, get an early release, get sentenced to more time (whether justified or not), and some didn’t even make it out of Lichfield alive. ****Click here to read the review in full. ...
Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student living in London in the early 1980s. She wears oversized shirts, carries an Olympus camera round her neck at parties, and sits at a typewriter each day, attempting to bring her film project to life. As she gets more involved in a tense and somewhat troubling relationship with the much older Anthony (Tom Burke), she struggles to balance her creative dreams with the ups and downs of loving him. ...
“What does one do around here?” “Wait for the summer to end.” Watching the hazy blue skies, sun-sheened skin and absorbing romance of Luca Guadagnino’s much-loved ‘Call Me By Your Name’, you wouldn’t be blamed for hoping that autumn never comes. Click here to read the piece in full. 35 2489 Viewsarmie hammer call me by your name timothee chalamet Data scraped from web archives. Preserved for the cinematography community.
What is the Matrix? Control.’ We find Morpheus explaining this to Neo in the Construct; a blank, white space used by him and the Resistance to simulate any situation they require when training to take down the Agents. He’s referring to the farming of human beings to provide power for a dominant race of robots – which we hope is a while off yet – but to look at the society we’ve built for ourselves, you can’t help but wonder if we’re lost in the green and black ether right now. ...