WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Revenge, def: the act of hurting or harming someone in return for injury or wrong suffered at their hands. This is possibly something, deep down, that we are all familiar with – it’s not always in violence. Even indirect social media posts can be seen as the modern form …
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The Beautiful Game – First Half
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS The Beautiful Game. A Game of Two Halves. What am I talking about? I’m talking FOOTBALL. Football is, probably, England’s favourite sport with at least 70% of the UK population watching the Premier League every week. Even those that do not claim to follow the sport show their colours and …
When Insects Attack
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Additional warning, it may also make you a little itchy. I am really hoping that those of you reading enjoy this article because I have stepped rather far out of my comfort zone to bring it to you. I honestly despise anything creepy-crawly ESPECIALLY spiders (yes, I know, …
Anti-Heroes
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Anti-hero def. A lead character who lacks what would be considered as typical heroic qualities. However, is it not also the case that someone doing a bad thing for a good reason could also be considered an anti-hero? Well, I’ve compiled a few films which I considered to contain …
Utopian Future
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I discovered something when watching the following films. With every Utopian future, something has to go wrong or at least not be quite right – in the same way that with every Dystopian future, someone overthrows (whether successfully or not) the powers that be. Westworld I’m just going …
A Chick-Flick Free Valentine’s Day
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers Many people seem to think that as a female, I should be into chick-flicks and rom-coms. Well let’s just say I’m not your average woman, and Valentine’s Day never really interested me until I met my boyfriend. So, here’s a group of films for those of you, like me, …
Killer Kids
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers So it was mentioned to me by a reader of this blog that they are not a massive fan of children in horror films but I’ve noticed something. Killer children don’t just reside in the horror genre, so let’s take a look at these miniature menaces that took murder …
Unconventional Christmas Films
WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers So, I have recently discovered that there are different categories of Christmas films. Let me explain; Category A films are specifically about Christmas, like Home Alone or A Christmas Carol. Category B films, however, are set at Christmastime but Christmas isn’t the main subject of the film. Finally, there …
Dystopian Future
WARNING: This article may contain spoilers I think this is something we all dread, a future that isn’t all bright and cheery. A lot of the films I’ve covered for this article I’m sure will touch home with a lot of the fears that are affecting us now, let alone the fears they had for …
Frank Miller’s Sin City
WARNING: This Article Contains Spoilers Everyone’s home town has stories of their own, I’m sure, but none would be as interweaving as those of Basin City and her residents. In 2005, Frank Miller’s graphic novel was brought to our screens by Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and himself. This was then followed 9 years later by …