Best of 2017 I have come to reject the idea that we have good and bad years in cinema. That view is usually cultivated amongst those who only follow the outcomes of the major awards ceremonies with their rather unadventurous ...
Read More »Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: Ugh…
Luc Besson can be a punishing director to follow. He has undoubtedly made some great films but one imagines his career will be defined by distinct eras of quality. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets falls firmly in ...
Read More »BtGS: Virgins and villainesses (part 1)
Have you ever noticed that the women who have sex are often the first to die, while their virginal counterparts tend to last through to the bitter end? This week, Lucy, Charlotte, and I discuss the beginnings of this trope ...
Read More »Fifth Element’s future: What we want, what we don’t, and what was just plain wrong
2015 marks the year that Marty McFly visited the future. There has been a flurry of articles doing the rounds on what the film predicted accurately and what it didn’t. Having recently watched one of my favourite science fiction films ...
Read More »Lucy: We humans are more concerned with having than with being
Luc Besson has delivered a number of excellent films in his career, always excelling with action-packed romps. The Fifth Element, his 1997 action sci-fi film starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich is still one of my all time favourite sci-fi ...
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