Like many, I’m not particularly a fan of 3D, and have struggled to find a film over the last three years where the effect actually felt warranted and an integral part of the movie that the story just couldn’t have done without. But what I am a fan of, and have been since my teen years, is Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 cult masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw...

On Saturday 15th December, join Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton for a book launch of J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter (New Casebooks), a vibrant, timely collection of new essays exploring the Harry Potter series, introduced by contributor and University of Wolverhampton Film Studies lecturer, Dr. Fran Pheasant-Kelly. Enjoy a screening of Harry Potter and...

To celebrate Halloween Live for Films is having a horror movie review each night in the 31 Days of Horror. You can see last years 31 days here. You can be involved by sending me your review of a horror film – new, old, good, bad, depressing, funny, disgusting, psychological. As long as it can be classed as a horror then you can send it here...

To celebrate Halloween Live for Films is having a horror movie review each night in the 31 Days of Horror. You can see last years 31 days here. You can be involved by sending me your review of a horror film – new, old, good, bad, depressing, funny, disgusting, psychological. As long as it can be classed as a horror then you can send it over to me...

Possibly some slight spoilers ahead. In the early 1980s, Bulgarian-French philosopher and sociologist Julia Kristeva’s Power of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980) outlined the body’s relationship with borders. Kristeva argued that the importance of maintaining borders is an exertion to keep a sense of self or identity, arguing that the abject is neither...

The visual representation of sexuality and gender has been related to the meta-narrative of science fiction film habitually throughout the history of cinema. An early example can be found in the manifestation of the Maschinenmensch (“machine-human”, later referred to as the “machine-man”) in Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist epic Metropolis (1927),...

THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE IN GIRL, INTERRUPTED AND ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST. By Paul Anthony Jonze. Mental illness has been portrayed in cinema with varying degrees of accuracy since as early as the 1920s, when The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) used the elaborately abstract mise-en-scène of German Expressionism...

Over the last few months, Batman fans across the globe have been drip fed trailers and TV spots of director Christopher Nolan’s up and coming third and final instalment in his vision of life in Gotham City. The Dark Knight Rises is so far promising to be the definitive summer blockbuster of 2012, as Batman (Christian Bale), Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman...

This in-depth and fascinating analysis of the Alien films is by Paul Jonze. Introduction    There’s nothing to fear. Look, no blood, no decay. Just a few stitches. – Dr. Henry Frankenstein, Frankenstein Futura … Parody whatever you like to call it. Also: Delusion … In short a woman. - Inventor Rotwang, Metropolis The image of...

This review by Paul Anthony Jonze Erm…actually, Miss Shaw, I’m not so sure I am. Never have I left the cinema with such mixed feelings. After being such a huge Alien fan pretty much all my life, Prometheus is the film that initially promised to answer a lot of questions raised in Alien in the form of a prequel, then to evolve into something new, and,...