Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s most awful depictions of married life… With your best Peter Cook impression, repeat after me…’Marriage (or mawiage)…’ That holiest of unions where a couple ties the knot and themselves together, in theory, for the rest of their days. There has been many a depiction of marriage in the entertainment industry. Al […]
It’s Time to Give the Horror Genre More Respect
As Halloween approaches, Tom Jolliffe looks at the Horror genre, and why it needs more respect… As a movie lover with a wide ranging taste in films I’ve long been fairly open to an array of genres. It was recently though, and perhaps in part this stems from writing a few horror features of late, […]
The Disturbed Outsider: A Cinematic Pathway Leading to Joker
In the wake of Joker’s success, Tom Jolliffe looks at similar cinematic examples of the disturbed outsider… With a quarter billion in takings and counting, as well as divisive reviews, media attention up the wazoo, and a status (particularly among the 18-30 viewers) as a cinematic masterpiece, Joker’s depiction of disturbed isolation and disconnect from […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 4 – Possession (1981)
Possession, 1981. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. Starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennet, and Johanna Hofer. SYNOPSIS: Mark, an international spy, returns home from his latest mission to be confronted with a demand for a divorce from his wife Anna after she admits to having an affair. This marital spat, however, is merely […]
