For this instalment, I have decided to focus on the role of the Matriarch and the different ways in which it has been presented throughout cinema history.
To continue my series of Top Five Influential Female Characters in Film, I now present another for your reading pleasure, where I will be focusing on female children in cinema. The characters I have chosen, range…
As mentioned in my previous article, “Once Upon A Realisation”, I have a formidable film collection. Incidentally, this has inspired my decision to begin a series of articles, each focusing on five…
You all remember the original Disney classics, don’t you?
If you were born before the Twenty-First Century you most certainly will, as they will have been your first forays into the world of Walt’s creative vision, whilst you were growing up. It’s been years…
“I could look like someone you know or it could be a stranger in a crowd”
It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel, it doesn’t give up. It follows. The tagline to David Robert Mitchell’s retro horror flick It Follows is simple enough, a clever mix of ambiguity and certainty…
For the majority of my life, I have not considered myself a Feminist. This should not suggest that I had no opinion on the subject — quite the contrary. I firmly believed in equality between the sexes, knowing, as any liberal-minded individual should, that for either…
The pay gap between women and men in Britain is a key measure of the Economic Inequality between the genders. Men are shown to be three times more likely to earn more than women, with earnings of excess of more than £100,000. Government figures have shown in 2013, 140,000 men had earned the same amount of…
2014 was a glorious year for pop culture, peppered by celebrity scandals and the SONY hackings, it was the gossip gift that kept on giving.
Films are powerful. They transport you to another lifetime, another timeframe.
Films are alluring. Films have impact. They can influence fashion, style and even tastes in the opposite…