‘I Ain’t Afraid of No YouTube’: When Hollywood Trailers Become Unhitched From Their Films

I like a good film trailer. More specifically, I like a good film trailer for a movie I don’t have … More

The Turner Prize: A Brief Introduction to Film and Video (and Disappointment in 2016)

In between the commencement of this year’s Festival de Cannes — arguably the most important showcase for European film and … More

Hardcore POV: ‘Hardcore Henry’, the POV Shot, and ‘Let’s Watch’ Cinema

Ilya Naishuller’s unconventional action shoot-em-up film Hardcore Henry (2015) has polarized opinion. At the time of writing this, it has … More

‘Culloden’ and ‘The War Game’ Don’t Rewrite History, They Rewrite How We Can Learn From the Past

On the moors of Culloden 1746, through the smoke of cannon fire and the fog of war, we see two … More

Surviving the Moral Narrative of ‘Taxi Driver’ 40 Years On

Forty years on from its release date in February 1976, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver still thrives in our collective public … More

“Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In’t”: Speculating on [Joss Whedon] Adaptations of Shakespeare

To borrow from Hamlet‘s Polonius, there is something of a method to the madness in Whedon shooting a “homebrew” adaptation of … More

Exploring the Morality of Romance within ‘Brief Encounter’, 70 Years On

Despite being released 70 years ago in 1945, Brief Encounter — director David Lean’s tale of two star-crossed lovers desperately … More

‘An Inspector Calls’ Indicts the Ruling Class in BBC’s Latest Literary Drama

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “An unfaithful rich man walks into a bar and picks up a … More

Rooting for Harry Lime: ‘The Third Man’ As Morally Ambiguous Heterotopia

With 2015 the centenary of Orson Welles’ birth year (1915), cinemas everywhere have been celebrating, commemorating, and exhibiting classic movies … More

Women Screenwriters: Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003)

Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, or Leni Riefenstahl, was a German film director, producer, editor, actress and dancer whose career spanned … More

Women Screenwriters: Anna Melikyan (b. 1976) and the New Post-Soviet Person

Anna Melikyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and raised in Armenia. In 2002, Melikyan graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of … More

Women Screenwriters: Armenia

After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. … More