What do major film or novel franchises have in common? The ones that feature stories involving a protagonist on a quest to save the world from some sort of disaster. There’s typically a love interest, a villain, a sidekick or band of sidekicks, and a resolution where everyone lives happily […]
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Top 40 Favourite Films
I really had to narrow this down from about 150 movies (I love movies…obviously). So here are my top 40 to-die-for films, all of which I have seen multiple times. (Note: this is going to be a very long post.) 4321. This action-packed thriller is the story of four […]
Film Review: Magic (1978)
Magic is this creepy psychological thriller that came out in 1978. It’s about a struggling magician named Corky Withers who becomes a well-known performer once he brings his ventriloquist dummy, Fats, to his shows. Corky is a very disturbed guy; he suffers from either schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder. He […]
Least favourite films ever
These are all films that I’ve seen that have either bored me to death or horrified me. The woman in black. Watched this when I was 14, at the cinema with a friend who loved horror films yet sat through half the film covering her eyes. It’s horrifying, and what’s […]
Films are racist?
Growing up I always thought it was really unfair that Hollywood films mostly have white actors and actresses and not enough people ‘of colour.’ However, isn’t that just because there are more white people than any other racial demographic in America? It’s like complaining that Bollywood films only cast Indian […]
Twilight Sucks
Once upon I time I loved Twilight. Aged 12-15 I thought it was a beautiful love story. Edward was sooo perfect, and I was Team Jacob all the way cos of Taylor Lautner’s sexy abs. A few years later, aged 18, I re-read Twilight, New Moon and the beginning of […]