A Love Letter To… The Blues Brothers Patrick Taylor September 17, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia They were on a mission from God. No one stood a chance, let alone the entire representation of the Illinois Law Enforcement Community. Born out of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers...
A Love Letter to… A Knight’s Tale Madeline Joint September 13, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 3 Comments A Knight’s Tale is the gleefully wrought tale of a poor thatcher’s son in the service of a knight, who promptly kicks the bucket three minutes before he is due to win big in a jousting tournament....
A Love Letter to… Sunset Boulevard Lina Jurdeczka September 11, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia A few years ago I took a Film Studies course at university. One of the classes dealt with cinephilia – the love of film. At the beginning of the session, the lecturer asked an interesting question that...
A Love Letter To… Twister Sophie Wing August 24, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 1 Comment Imagine it: the whistling howl of the wind as it tears through flat Midwestern farmland. Saturated clouds hang dark in a darker sky, their slow swirl sweeping into inverted peaks that descend towards the...
A Love Letter To… Hook Sophie Wing August 12, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia How do you write a love letter to a film that made up so much of your childhood, yet can never be seen in quite the same way again? So the loss of Robin Williams has tinged our childhood nostalgia with...
A Love Letter to… Jurassic Park Daniel Orton July 27, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia When I was about seven or eight years old, I found myself perusing my grandparents’ shelf of VHS tapes. In amongst the Tommy Cooper compilations and boxes of Turkish Delight one tape caught my eye. It was...
A Love Letter To… This is Spinal Tap Tom Bond July 20, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not widely reported.” Is there a more quotable film in the history of comedy? You might argue Anchorman, maybe Airplane!, but you’d be...
A Love Letter To… The Marvel Cinematic Universe Sophie Wing July 17, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia The Marvel Cinematic Universe needs no explanation. There's little doubt that even just the letters M, C, and U arranged in that order are enough to get the message across. That's a hefty monopoly on the...
A Love Letter To… In Bruges Conor Morgan July 2, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 1 Comment In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy, written and directed by playwright Martin McDonagh. His feature debut, it centres on Irish hitmen Ken and Ray (Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell respectively). After a bungled...
A Love Letter To… Drag Me To Hell Andy J Smith June 24, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “We will meet again.” - And with these four words begins the unraveling of one of the best horror films of the last decade. In 2009 Sam Raimi returned to his wonderful, exciting and scintillating Evil...
A Love Letter To… Speed Olivia Luder June 19, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 6 Comments Pop quiz, hot shot: is Speed the best action film of the nineties? Hint: the answer is not ‘Shoot the hostage.’ This is a film so high-concept that its title is able to sum up the plot in one word:...
A Love Letter To… Independence Day David Brake June 6, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 1 Comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLywiaM6PA The above is one of the most inspirational and motivational speeches ever recorded on film. It's from President Whitmore, speaking on the eve of humanity's final...