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Silent films have always intimidated me. At first glance they seem outdated and inaccessible, only useful for studying a bygone era of cinema. Most people who aren’t film critics or academics struggle with the idea of watching a film which lacks one of the key elements of any modern production. For my part, I assumed […]
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“It’s true what they say. Rich people really are different.” This is the message of Ready or Not, the second film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who’s previous credits include the horror anthology V/H/S (2012). Samara Weavings stars as Grace, a young woman marrying into the uber-wealthy “Le Domas” family. Instead of being […]
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Quentin Tarantino’s passion for cinema has always been a dominant presence in his work. It’s there in his use of pastiche, in his references to other films and in his gleeful engagement with genre tropes. In his latest effort, it’s more evident than it ever has been. His ninth film, Once Upon a Time in […]
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Image description: The cast of the Cats musical on Broadway Hollywood’s recent obsession with CGI felines has me concerned. What with Disney’s entirely CGI realised remake of The Lion King, and Universal‘s first look at the rather disturbingly rendered humanoid cats of Cats (2019), they’re everywhere and they’re causing consternation amongst film fans, especially myself. […]
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Ahhh, the long vacation. At last, examinations and coursework assessments are behind us and we are finally permitted to relax. Well, with the slight aside of vacation reading that is. In order to fully escape from the clutches of such texts and memories of those ever more muggy libraries, many of us may be tempted […]
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Warning: Spoilers ahead. Big budgets aren’t unusual with Netflix; millions of dollars can be invested in a single episode. Reports from Variety suggested that each episode in Star Trek Discovery’s first season cost over $8 million. If the visual spectacle of the show’s sophomore season is anything to go by, the budget will have received […]
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Warning: Major spoilers ahead. The online petition to remake the final season of the most expensive, illegally downloaded television series of all time has currently received over 1.5 million signatures. Its creator, Dylan D, implores viewers to remedy the ‘woefully incompetent’ writing of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. But is all of this backlash deserved? […]
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I never thought I would be one to write on the Oxford Student, but as an avid consumer of the film industry and one that truly enjoys trailers themselves as bite-sized entertainment, a shot of adrenaline, or a chance to yell excitedly in my kitchen, I also realized trailers are much more. There are many […]
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Summer is here and the sun is (hopefully) gracing the British Isles. You know what that means. It’s time to get out there and soak in those rays at the beach before the inevitable winter cold returns to plunge us back into desolation and despair. But remember to be safe out there, or disaster could […]
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This article discusses Pet Sematary and Us with spoilers The uncanny is the frightening knife-edge between the familiar and the unfamiliar. The idea of the uncanny used to concern psychologists; Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud wrote about it. The idea of the uncanny still concerns roboticists; the uncanny valley hypothesis states that robots become more […]
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If you happened to watch the somewhat divisive Venom last year, you might have enjoyed Tom Hardy’s performance. You might not have enjoyed its feeble screenplay. Either way, one thing you may not have remembered is when Hardy’s Eddie Brock, shortly after hearing the voice of the parasite, is told in his own voice that […]
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Growing up in Cardiff, I became quite used to the sight of a television crew set up ready to film one of BBC Wales’s successful shows. I remember how natural it felt when one day after primary school my friends and I took a detour with our parents to see Doctor Who and his Tardis […]
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You can’t just go to the cinema to watch a film. You need to sample the upcoming releases that play before the big event. Whether that be the trailer for the next Marvel movie or a long-awaited sequel, you’ve got to let the flavours dance on your palate before consuming the main meal. Although we’ve […]
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Earlier this month, two and a half million of us tuned in to watch the finale of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly acclaimed comedy Fleabag. The series, which followed the misadventures of its damaged but lovable antiheroine, played wonderfully by Waller-Bridge herself, had finally come to an end, and needless to say, many were sad to see […]
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Warning: Spoilers Ahead. Big budgets aren’t unusual with Netflix; millions of dollars can be invested in a single episode. Reports from Variety suggested that each episode in Star Trek Discovery’s first season cost over $8 million. If the visual spectacle of the show’s sophomore season is anything to go by, the budget will have received […]
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead. The night is always darkest before the dawn, and so it was with Game of Thrones’ third episode in the final season of the show. The episode opened with an eerie silence; it took almost fifteen minutes for the first proper line of dialogue to be spoken, cultivating a delicious sense of […]
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N.B-Nothing more spoilery than what was in the trailers “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” – Adapted from Robert Burns’ To a Mouse Now 3 films bigger, and one year later, than when I last reviewed it, the MCU has reached a turning point in its life. It’s already a cinematic […]
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Back in 2008, a new era of cinema was dawning, with Marvel, having finally shaken off the shackles of mistakes thirty years in the making. The Howard the Duck film was one such mistake, as while enjoyable, it didn’t exactly set the box office alight. Another was the collapse of the comics industry in the […]
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Netflix’s chilling new documentary, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, shocks the viewer into questioning how far the seeds of corruption are sown beneath the visible eye. Negative reviews, which slate the documentary for providing a poorly padded out summary of the case, indicate that its intended purpose has been missed by many. Although it doesn’t […]
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