This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my MSc Dissertation. Here is Part One, Part Two & Part Three. ‘I Really, Really Hate Clones’ S05 E12 – Spider-Man (1994) With Spider-Man: No Way Home being the first explicit example within… Read More
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Multiverses, Spider-Man & The MCU – Part Three
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my MSc Dissertation. Here is Part One & Part Two. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018, Rodney Rothman & Peter Ramsey) In this part there is a breakdown of the success of the Spider-Man… Read More
The Ethical and Moral Universe of IRREVERSIBLE
Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) is a film which is polarising, difficult, and in my opinion utterly brilliant. One of the many aspects of the film is is shifting moral and ethical viewpoints. So how do I start identifying and describing the universe in which Irreversible… Read More
Multiverses, Spider-Man & The MCU – Part Two
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
THE TERRORDOME: SPLATTER (2009, Joe Dante)
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
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.
Thirty Years Apart: Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON (1950) & KAGEMUSHA (1980)
[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
Multiverses, Spider-Man & The MCU – Part One
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
Does It Ever Rain In A Michael Bay Movie? – AMBULANCE (2022)
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
CLAPPING FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS (2013) – Short Film of the Day
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