6.5.17

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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An exercise in style, mostly. I haven't watched the series, but given that the characters are just collections of archetypes, it's v...

Ghost in the Shell

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The LGNN discussion (which I contributed to at the margins) did a good job of exploring the whitewashing controversy. Perversely, it made m...
30.4.17

All About Eve

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Gender and Christian myth are my go to lenses when interpreting film, and All About Eve is at the centre of that Venn diagram. It's not...
27.4.17

The Handmaiden

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The first two parts show two women being fashioned by the desires of two men. But neither of the men see into what the women truly want. Onl...
23.4.17

The Gap between Panels / Standing on the Edge of an Alien Invasion

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Latest column on the LGNN is a rather discursive one drawing parallels between two big manga hits – Knights of Sidonia and Attack on Titan ...
12.4.17

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"I know what I'm doing, trust me. 'Cause these man are taking major L's in front of their idols. Me and Drake are texting e...
10.4.17

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring

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It feels weird writing this, but I think Žižek may be onto something . Kim Ki-duk may have intended his film to be a straight depiction of B...
5.4.17

12 favourite emo albums

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Using the rather expansive definition and longlist put together  for this ILM poll , which was a great way of discovering things I'd pre...
2.4.17

Exotica

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One long striptease of a film, except what is being revealed isn't alluring at all. These clubs are wells of loneliness, and Exotica  is...