Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny – I’m Afraid
An aged Harrison Ford picks up the whip and dons the fedora one last time in the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny, but suffice it to say that this revival has a high standard to live up to. Unfortunately, between Lucasfilm’s track record under Disney and a number of…
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How Whiplash Establishes (and Deconstructs) the Relationship Between Its Protagonist and Antagonist
Discover how Damien Chazelle’s 2014 masterpiece creates a truly unique dynamic, layered with abuse, physicality and subtlety, between its two main characters, music student Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), and his aggressively perfectionist teacher Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons).
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Obi-Wan Kenobi – I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This!
The first trailer for the highly anticipated Disney+ Limited Series “Obi-Wan-Kenobi” has arrived, and despite my excitement for seeing the heroes of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy return to the screen 20 years later holding steady, the lacklustre trailer has also stoked many of my deeper fears regarding the quality of the show and the…
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Broken Idols
There’s nothing unusual about film and television with cult followings – but are young men idolising these characters for the wrong reasons?
This article was featured by NEON Nottingham and appears in NEON Issue #4.
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Sex Education – 2019’s Unexpected Delight
At the beginning of this year, I found myself suckered into watching a TV show I wasn’t exactly expecting to enjoy – I can’t say a teenage comedy drama about the sex lives of students in a very Americanised and politically correct take on a British school seemed like my cup of tea – but…
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