Michael Mann returns to the big screen after 8 years away; BLACKHAT his last, he now comes back with a tale of masculinity, heat, and metal. FERRARI stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari, Penelope Cruz as his wife Laura, and Shailene Woodley as Lina Lardi.… Read More
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Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Seven
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and Part Six. How I Learned to Stop Critiquing and Start Defending Michael Bay What I hoped to… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Six
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. Steven Shaviro argues in his book, ‘Post-Cinematic Affect’, that in the 21st century technological advances in media… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Five
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. While watching the Transformers franchise, I noted that Michael Bay’s action filmmaking style, dubbed ‘Bayhem’, became more weightless and… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Four
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One, Part Two and Part Three. The action sequence needs to be an affective experience. If it to work for the audience, it needs to be as… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Three
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One and Part Two. Another way to unpack these sequences is to analyse their Average Shot Length (ASL) and types of shots used in each of them.… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part Two
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. Here is Part One. In the 21st century, various critics have argued and discussed the development of film style within Hollywood. This development of film style has gone from the… Read More
Live Action Robots In Disguise – Part One
This is a multi-part series that is a slightly modified version of my BA Dissertation. All five films in the Transformers series were directed by Michael Bay, released between 2007 and 2017, with the spin-off film Bumblebee directed by Travis Knight, being released in 2018.… Read More
The Appeal of DIE HARD
[This article is an edited version of an assignment originally written for my BA.] Die Hard, from director John McTiernan, is an example of the action movie at its height. There are elements within the film that are atypical of the action movie, a genre… Read More
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE: Reality/Illusion
[This article is an edited version of an assignment originally written for my MSc.] For this peice I will be looking at The Double Life of Véronique (1991), and exploring how the director, Krzysztof Kieślowski, explores the dichotomy between reality and illusion. When referring to… Read More