In a 2011 article entitled, ‘Vancouver movie magic captures the world’, Gordon Hardwick of the British Columbia Film Commission enthusiastically…
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To loosely paraphrase the lyrics from a 1964 classic: “Summer’s here and the time is right for shutting the curtains…
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If, as playground mnemonics for remembering the order of the visible colors within the spectrum of light are accurate and…
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I like a good film trailer. More specifically, I like a good film trailer for a movie I don’t have…
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…
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…
Who Teaches the Daleks?: ‘Doctor Who’ and Fulfilling the BBC’s Remit for Educational Programming
Operating as a public broadcasting station since 1927, the BBC has been required by Royal Charter to serve the public…
‘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…
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…
Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episodes 8, 9, and 10
Before we get into the meat and bones of Jekyll and Hyde‘s final three cadaverous episodes, one thing should be addressed…
The Best TV of 2015: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Adapting Susanna Clarke’s novel, which Neil Gaiman called “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last…
The Best TV of 2015: Humans
Adapted from the acclaimed Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, Humans is like a modern day I, Robot, Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence where…
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