100 Words or Less – The Replacement Killers (1998)
Chow Yun-fat’s first Hollywood action film and Antoine Fuqua’s directorial debut – is it any good?
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How do mock-documentaries use documentary conventions to convey a sense of verisimilitude?
A short essay analysing how the mock-documentary genre uses the conventions of it’s grown up brother, the documentary, to add a sense of realism and believability.
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In anticipation of Shane Black’s upcoming Predator sequel, this essay takes a look back at his directorial debut and what it can tell us about postmodernism through it’s uses of noir tropes and themes.
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Love it or hate it (or just think that Batman Begins is the superior film), Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is about to hit 10 years old. In honour of that fact, here’s an essay I did analysing the British Media’s strange outrage at the film’s 12A rating.
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And now for something completely different… an essay I wrote a couple years back during my film degree at Uni.
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Westworld concluded this week in spectacular fashion. Like the finale to season 1, we were left with more questions than answers and long wait until season 3.
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“I make my own decisions, and I’m gonna destroy this whole fuckin’ place!” I don’t think there’s any coming back from this one. William is well and truly too far gone, and the murder of his daughter just cements it. Funny thing about Ed Harris’ William is that he’s just like the viewers (especially […]
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