Tag: 2000’s
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by Sean Wilson Now celebrating its 25th anniversary with a 4K re-release, Donnie Darko continues to endure as a haunting expression of the teenage experience. If cult classic Donnie Darko is all about losing a sense of time, then the experience of watching the film on its 25th anniversary is strangely analogous with those themes.…
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By Josie Allen For as long as Jennifer’s Body has been around, it has invited discourse surrounding feminism and homosexuality. The 2009 horror-comedy stars Amanda Seyfried as Anita ‘Needy’ Lesnicki, the film’s wallflower protagonist, alongside Megan Fox’s Jennifer Check, the alluring cool-girl best friend. When Jennifer is abducted by an indie rock band called Low…
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By Joseph Ratchford ‘Is he man? Or monster? Or is he both?’ was one of the three taglines that brandished the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. The others were ‘Fantasy as you like it!’ and ‘The Strangest Man of All Time!!’. They didn’t stick the same way.Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in the…
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by Zak Coates Two monsters haunted Forbidden Worlds: a dragon and a beast. I had the opportunity to attend the Forbidden Worlds film festival at the Bristol Megascreen on 24th April, it proved to be a captivating introduction to the communal energy of fantasy fandom. I attended the festival primarily to see Brotherhood of the…
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by Isabelle Cocozza This review is attemptedly spoiler-free, only generally known plot point spoilers are included. I would advise going into this film blind, before reading regardless. On Sunday 24th of August, I went to London’s Leicester Square ODEON Luxe for Frightfest – the UK’s biggest horror and genre film festival – for the worldwide…
