This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my MSc Dissertation. Here is Part One. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006, Justin Lin) At the end of Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau), Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) stands in… Read More
I have been on a bit of a Joe Dante kick recently. The director of GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (aka: The Greatest Live-Action Looney Tunes Movie Ever), is someone who I have desperately wanted to make something akin to Scorsese’s THE WOLF OF WALL… Read More
Welcome to THE TERRORDOME. A section of SUPERATOMOVISION which will be focussed entirely on Horror Films. Whether this will be cinema releases, streaming releases, or just whatever I have in my DVD collection.
[This article is an edited version of an assignment originally written for my MSc.] Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950) and Kagemusha (1980) are separated by thirty years, yet maintain similar themes and stylistic directorial traits. Rashomon is a film framed by a narrative that examines the… Read More
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my MSc Dissertation. As Doc Ock – or Doctor Otto Octavius – (Alfred Molina) goes to impale Spider-Man (Tom Holland) underneath the freeway in the first action set-piece of Spider-Man: No Way Home… Read More
This series focuses on the one and only Michael Bay. Attempting to deconstruct his filmography, one film at a time. Usually I would say that the ideas explored here may or may not end up in my Dissertation about Michael Bay and Post-Cinema (if I… Read More
As a collection of work that tells the story of ‘The Boy’, Donald Glover explores the impact of wealth on a person who dislikes his friends, and merely travels through the non-existence of what he has around him. At least this is what I take… Read More
[This post was originally written 29th August 2016] I honestly thought I was going to come out hating this more than I did TERMINATOR GENISYS (funningly enough also starring Jai Courtney). But to my wonder I didn’t; although I didn’t love it either.
[This post was originally written 11th October 2016] I honestly didn’t know that this year would’ve made me want to grab life and make something of it, and the main reason for it would have been SWISS ARMY MAN.
[This is an altered version of a post originally featured on Hidden Remote] THE VANISHING OF SIDNEY HALL is a film where I can feel all the cogs trying to make me like it. The cast and cinematography are great but it is a very… Read More
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