‘The Sopranos’: Mythologizing the Gangster Genre

In a 1933 publicity piece for the film Blondie Johnson, Warner Brothers declared that, “The value of [gangster] films now … More

Future Technology in the ‘Star Trek’ Reboots: Complex Future(s)

With our first explorative adventure in Future Technology in the ‘Star Trek’ Reboots:Tethered and Performative, we examined how, through looking … More

Future Technology in the ‘Star Trek’ Reboots: Tethered and Performative

As human beings, we are constantly developing, and exploration is one of the ways in which we can expect to … More

‘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

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

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

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