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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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