All of my articles about films and the film industry!
Many months ago now, Cardiff hosted the IRIS Film Festival, one of the UK’s best Film Festivals for LGBT Cinema. Most of my classmates got involved and I was incredibly jealous of all of them, I was working full time as an assistant manager at a Coffee Shop & Bar, I didn’t have time to … More 4 Days of Vampires: Vampfest 2022
Last year a film I saw a film at the Wales One World Film Festival changed the game on how I view ghost films! The horror genre is saturated with “Copy and Paste” ghost plots full of cheap jump scares that forget the existential potential in the existence of ghosts. But I was pleasantly surprised … More The Long Walk: Mattie Do’s Time Travel, Serial Killer, Ghost Film in Rural Laos.
In a continually globalised world, the diaspora makes up an ever increasing percentage of the population. The Indian diaspora as of 2019 is estimated at 17.5million people (According to the United Nations). Traditionally this diaspora has not always been well represented by the National cinema and First Cinema Industries that have often dominated the globalised … More Transnational Cinema & The Experience of Diaspora
In sunshine and shadow, from darkness till noon Over mountains that reach from the sky to the moon A man with a dream that will never let go Keeps searching to find El Dorado So ride, boldly ride, to the end of the rainbow Ride, boldly ride, till you find El Dorado The wind becomes … More EL Dorado – Howard Hawks’ Existential Original Song
The 1960s saw huge changes in the American film industry, with the Old Hollywood studios rapidly losing money on expensive films that no longer spoke to a baby boom audience that was coming of age. A new generation of filmmakers were leading a Hollywood renaissance which would become known as New Hollywood. Filmmakers like Scorsese … More Was New Hollywood Masculinity Really New?
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