Scene Location: ‘Havana Widows’ (1933)

Havana Widows is a classic pre-code comedy ‘sex film’ from the Hollywood studio system, where the titillation of the story … More

Scene Location: ‘Wreck of the Battleship “Maine” and Morro Castle, Havana Harbor’ (1898)

Due to the rising commercial demand for dramatic content in the new medium of film, William Paley was commissioned in … More

My Big Fat Greek Wedding explores Greek American culture, and is set in Chicago, where the film was partly … More

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

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