The Playful Physicality of Chicken Run Joseph Bullock June 24, 2020 Analysis, Features Chicken Run's importance in the field of feature film animation can hardly be overstated. Twenty years ago this week it became the first of Bristol animation studio Aardman’s feature films, proving the...
The Violent Female Empowerment of Kill Bill: Volume 1 Izzy MacLaren October 12, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off Before Kill Bill: Volume 1’s release, audiences were already acquainted with Quentin Tarantino’s interests in extreme violence and casual drug use. But once it hit cinemas, Kill Bill proved to be a...
Oh Brother: Reappraising Step Brothers 10 Years On James Andrews July 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, Nostalgia 2008's Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly team-up Step Brothers is almost irredeemably stupid and low-brow when viewed again with a decade's more maturity, and through the more enlightened filter of 2018. Almost...
My First Uprising: WALL-E’s Family-Friendly Revolution Joni Blyth June 28, 2018 Features, Love Letter Thracian gladiators. Highland knights. Petulant teenagers. These are the kinds of people who are born to lead revolutions. Courageous defiance comes with the territory of being a sword bearing, bow-wielding...
Hot Stuff – The Full Monty 20 Years On Stephanie Watts August 29, 2017 Analysis, Features We’ve all been there – joking that if we don’t get that job, or pass that exam, we’ll have to become strippers to make ends meet. In The Full Monty, for six men of Sheffield out of a job after the...
Barton Fink and the Coen Brothers’ Early Genius Conor Morgan August 20, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features The first three films made by the Coen Brothers are all great. Excellent, in fact. But Barton Fink is the first that really showed their genius; that they are two of the preeminent filmmakers of our time....
