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November 2023
🎬 #98 Find Hope In Cinema.
I hope the newsletter finds you well. I’ll get straight into it. This week’s two films have only minor things in common - they’re both made in Japan by…
🎬 #97 High Concept, Low Budget.
Imagination knows no bounds in film. Especially those that have a very ambitious, ‘high’ concept. And when you discover a film that achieves this on a…
🎬 #96 The Coen Brother's Genre.
I have to admit that I like the Coen Brother’s films a lot. But they’re not my go to favourite filmmakers the way they are for a lot of people, even if…
🎬 #95 The Procedure Of The Procedural.
I love a procedural. A kind of sub-genre that takes us rigorously step by step through a process - usually of solving a crime or uncovering an unknown …
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October 2023
🎬 #94 Horror Is A Theme Park Ride.
Getting people out to the cinema to actually see a film how it was supposed to be seen is harder these days - it’s understandable, you can watch films…
🎬 #93 Cinema Is Pure Imagination.
More so than any other medium film has the ability to be purely imaginative. Maybe because it resembles the process of imagination the most closely …
🎬 #92 The Luckiest Film on Earth.
I don’t usually like suggesting films based on a theme related to the time of year or events that have happened. Feels a bit of a cop out sometimes…
🎬 #91 The Power Of A Title.
Choosing a name for anything is tricky - let alone a film whose title can help land the entire idea and grab the attention of an audience worth…
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September 2023
🎬 #90 Adventures In Voyeurism.
Watching a film makes us all voyeurs of some description, we’re peeking into the lives of the protagonist and how they deal with various obstacles as…
🎬 #89 The Male Physique in Cinema.
The bodies of men have changed almost as much as film itself. From the kind of boxy build of the 1940s-1960’s, to the swole, super lean, ultra-low body…
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🎬 #88 Revenge Is A Dish Best Served, Alive.
It’s the middle of September, which is crazy, so it’s time to hunker down, let Autumn surround us and take a deep dive into some heart-warming revenge…
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