30 Years… 30 Movies
This list contains one film that encompasses every year of life I have already experienced, the rest are pure speculation on my part about what these future years may contain…
Scooby Doo (2002) & Daphne’s Red Ascot
My first memory of ‘body swapping’ media was in 2009, sitting across from my pink PlayStation 2, gleefully watching the first live-action Scooby Doo (2002) movie on an archaic Panasonic TV.
Memory: A Practical Guide
Find a stimulus, or rather let it find you.
Be transported through space and time, find yourself in that moment again.
Linger in it for a minute more.
In Defence of RomComs
Its pessimistic parable, that modern dating is superficial (duh!), defies characterisation. Let me explain.
The Allure of Ultraviolence
These works prompt a deeper question of whether our artistic fascination with violence is a glamorisation, a critique, or a coping mechanism in an ultraviolent world.
Being Killed To The Limits of Eternity: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Pasolini cleverly subverts the cinematic techniques of excitement to be in service of pure horror.
With teeth: Why girls love vampires
Suspended between death and life, the vampire occupies a liminal space wherein typical boundaries can be blurred.
Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance
Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?
Building Morticia
Unlike Vampira and Elvira, Morticia is a wife and mother, but it goes without saying that she represents much more than that. She wants it all, and refreshingly, she never asks why she shouldn’t have it.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Joonam (جونم)
Urich’s soulful connection with the documentary as well as the subject matter is one that is felt palpably.