Spend approximately 0.5 seconds on the internet and you’ll be sure to find an all-too-frequent sound: whole slews of film ‘fans’ whining about an ‘epidemic of PC remakes’. These centre on what are, in their minds, untouchable, gospel-worthy films. Y’know, like that one where Dan Aykroyd gets a blowjob from a ghost. The feminists sure […]
Ghostbusters
The most iconic films of the 1980s
The 1980s produced some of the most iconic and celebrated films of all time, with the increase in technology available for filmmakers seeing a rapid advance in the quality of films and the special effects used. It really isn’t a surprise that part of the fascination with Stranger Things, as the second season takes over […]
Ghostbusters, Paris and Punk: An Interview with Wolf Alice’s Theo Ellis
Despite only releasing their debut single in 2013, Wolf Alice are excitingly counting down the days until their second album, Visions of a Life, is released for all the world to hear. With their 2015 debut, My Love is Cool, making the ‘Best Albums of the Year’ lists in The Guardian, NME, Q and Rough […]
What are critics for?
Alex Proyas, the much maligned director of I, Robot and Gods of Egypt, recently called film critics “a pack of diseased vultures pecking at the bones of a dying carcass”. As part of a bizarre Facebook rant, Proyas said that critics “have no personal taste or opinion”, and would soon be going “the way of the dinosaur or […]
The Pen from Penryn: The Importance of Ghostbusters
Exeter’s Streatham campus has a university cinema. When looking, rather enviously, at the listings for this upcoming term, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was such a good range of options. Although Captain America: Civil War passes dubiously, Finding Dory and The Nice Guys all pass the Bechdel Test, which just about makes […]