Month: August 2015

• GI No: The Rise of Nope-ra

  A bout with an entirely new illness (to add to my five-week-long tussle with sinusitis) has left me with little desire to do anything productive with my time (to be fair, this illness is partly defined by severe lethargy). Thus I’ve taken time to catch up with a few movies and TV this weekend (including a sizeable chunk of […]

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  24 August 2015

  Cinema, Film Reviews, Hollywood Cinema

  action cinema, film, film reviews, GI Joe, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Hasbro, Hollywood, toys

• Spectres of the frame; shifting perceptions

  Film theory is at a crossroads. The more I think about it, it’s more like the crazy Los Angeles freeway over/underpasses. Is the right way intertextual/intermedial/transmedial/psychological? Is there a right way at all? I’ve been running a studio this semester which looks at the role of the frame in the age of digital cinema. It’s […]

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  17 August 2015

  Research, Teaching

  film theory, Gilles Deleuze, notes, On the Frame, research, scribblings, Spectres of the Frame, teaching

• The Awakening (2011)

  I’ve never been a fan of horror cinema. I’m not sure whether that’s down to my experience of people hiring Saw LXII ad nauseum at Video Ezy, or my perhaps misguided decision to subject myself to The Exorcist, 28 Days Later, and Psycho in my formative years. Quite why I decided, then, to watch The […]

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  3 August 2015

  Cinema, Film Reviews

  BBC, film, film reviews, genre, genre cinema, horror, horror film, Rebecca Hall, reviews, The Awakening