England’s Most Dangerous Filmmaker
Note: There will be spoilers for the Tod Philips “Joker” film and a lot of the characters…
Hmmm….I understand the new technology just fine or at least I think I do. Its just that I can no longer raise the requisite amount of enthusiasm about them. I can see how this non-stop skepticism of mine is annoying to the younger co-workers, though.
“Oh, bad luck. You’re in the rough.”
I don’t think it did as well as the studio would have like, but Mortal Engines was a pretty big Steampunk film that just came out last year and Alita: Battle Angel from this past January had an awful lot of Steampunk elements as well. Seems to me that it’s hard to say a movement is dead when Peter Jackson and James Cameron are both incorporating it into their latest works.
The 2014 film The Babadook is about the tumultuous relationship of Amelia and her son Samuel as they are haunted by an entity known as The Babadook. Amelia and Samuel have been managing as a family since Amelia’s husband, Samuel’s father, died in a car collision while driving…
Russell Whitehouse originally published here
South Korea is well known for its horror cinema. Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE isn’t a horror film per se, though it does have subterranean surprises and a horrific climax.
this is an interesting dynamic to consider, because then Joker’s “craziness” can be attributed to a type of structural abnormality to his brain as a result of physical abuse during crucial developmental stages. Whereas Bruce Wayne has deep psychological wounds from seeing his parents killed (while still conforming to the norms of stoic masculinity…
I’ve been toying with a piece just specifically related to Batman as a representation of some of the worst aspects of masculinity, so a lot of what’s in this piece has been on my mind for a while already. I have a short story rolling around in the back of my mind which would be almost an example of these things too. With the success of “Joker” I’m…
