Based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers breathes new life into the Western genre. It tells the story of Eli and Charlie Sisters; two gunmen in 1850s Oregon who are hired to hunt down a gold prospector. The iconic Western style is instantly captured through the majestic rural landscape and classic gunslinger […]
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Whitewashing: a problem from big screen to adverts
Whitewashing has been an issue across all periods of Hollywood, from Mickey Rooney’s often excused caricature portrayal of a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), to Scarlett Johansson in the recent Ghost in the Shell, a live-action adaptation of the 1995 Japanese anime. The difference is that now, in 2017, the problem is being […]
Review: Jason Bourne
I am writing this review a few days after seeing Jason Bourne on the big screen, and quite honestly I’m finding it hard to recall the specifics – all that sticks in my mind are the audacious action set-pieces. This does not bode well for writing a review, obviously, but it is telling of the […]