Scene Location: ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ (2005)

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is an update of John Carpenter’s gritty 1976 remake of the 1959 classic western, Rio … More

Scene Location: ‘Blues Brothers 2000’ (1998)

Dan Aykroyd’s inspiration for the band The Blues Brothers stemmed largely from his formative years spent in the Canadian capital … More

There are numerous ways of describing Citizen Kane as some form of labyrinth. What lies at the centre of this … More

With a title as innocuous and generic as Kids, one may expect a trite Steve Martin or Robin Williams comedy … More

Richard Kelly, the director of Donnie Darko, best describes the cultural journey of his film in the inlay notes for … More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is an adaptation of an autobiographical novel in which the author, Chuck Barris, claims to … More

To contextualise Blue Velvet, it is useful to consider which film Lynch made before it. Released in 1984, Lynch’s film … More

Suggestively comparable to the leading protagonist of their film, Barton Fink was written in a mere three weeks by the … More

When one considers the enormous success of American cinema, or ‘The Dream Factory’, as a cultural form since its inception … More

Although the first X-Men film was shot in Toronto, the following three films in the franchise have all brought their … More

According to the Marvel Universe, the most prominent buildings of New York City are all inhabited by superheroes. The Fantastic … More

As a part of the Canadian ‘Hollywood North’, Vancouver is an attractive place to shoot ‘American’ feature films because it … More