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  • Sparkfest 2021 Roundup

    Sparkfest 2021 Roundup

    It’s the time of the local fringe festival again (or it would be if it were not cancelled for the second year in a row) but taking its place once again is the digital arts festival organised by my old university, Sparkfest.

    E Warren

    May 16, 2021
    Film
  • ‘Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review

    ‘Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm’ Review

    Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm tries and fails to capture the spark of the original. Its choice to focus on the central character, rather than the figures surrounding him proving fatal to the entire project.

    E Warren

    October 26, 2020
    Film, Review
    Borat, Cinema, Film, Movie, Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Girl on : Onward

    Girl on : Onward

    You’ve probably heard the criticism of Silicon Valley, ‘the only problems they’re interested in solving are their own.’ Like, each new startup and app and service there is is there to cater to the needs of a affluent young professional working in San Francisco (and successful expansion is only ever achieved by trampling workers rights.) […]

    E Warren

    March 10, 2020
    Film
  • Girl on: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

    Girl on: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’

    The Manson murders changed things. It was 1969 and things seemed stable, history was progressing according to some schedule everyone had set out in their minds, counterculture had started to burn its way out to the fringes of everyone’s day to day experience.

    E Warren

    August 16, 2019
    Film, Review
    Brad Pitt, Cinema, Film, Films, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Movie, Movies, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Opinion, Quentin Tarantino, Review
  • Girl on: Robert Wise’s ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’

    Girl on: Robert Wise’s ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’

    It feels weird that they should make this a submarine movie, but thinking about it, it’s the only way to make this work.

    E Warren

    August 14, 2019
    Film, Review
    1979, Cinema, Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Retrospective, Robert Wise, Star Trek, Television, TV
  • Girl on: Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 17-20)

    Girl on: Hideaki Anno’s ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (eps 17-20)

    It’s weird, before I write these I’ll watch all of the episodes I’m covering twice. Once spread out, over a few days or so, so that I can pay attention and get the experience of actually watching for the first time, and the second will be running through the four and taking notes right before I actually get to throwing my thoughts down. Usually my recollection is pretty good, this time between the two my brain invented a bunch of images that I guess never existed.

    E Warren

    August 13, 2019
    Neon Genesis Evangelion, Television
    Animated, Animation, Anime, Cinema, Film, Films, Gainax, Hideaki Anno, Movie, Movies, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Recap, Retrospective, Television
  • Girl on: Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’

    Girl on: Terry Gilliam’s ’12 Monkeys’

    There’s this thing that happens late in this movie, after our lead has been quite thoroughly broken down, where he’s sitting on a bed trying to come to terms with his situation.

    E Warren

    August 12, 2019
    Film, Review
    1995, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Cinema, Film, Films, Madeline Stowe, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Retrospective, Review, Terry Gilliam
  • Girl on: Ryan Fleck’s ‘Half Nelson’

    Girl on: Ryan Fleck’s ‘Half Nelson’

    I’ve lost count of the amount of times that I’ve said it, ‘I can be saved.’ I hope it’s human nature, why so many of us turn to religion, that need to be redeemed.

    E Warren

    August 7, 2019
    Film, Review
    2006, Anna Boden, Anthony Mackie, Cinema, Film, Films, Half Nelson, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Retrospective, Review, Ryan Fleck, Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps
  • Girl on: Leos Carax’s ‘The Lovers on the Bridge’

    Girl on: Leos Carax’s ‘The Lovers on the Bridge’

    I have self destructive impulses. I know that every day being a step towards death doesn’t mean I should choose to hurtle myself down that path with all the intensity I can muster, but living any other way doesn’t make sense to me.

    E Warren

    August 6, 2019
    Film, Review
    Cinema, Denis Lavant, Film, Films, France, French, Juliette Binoche, Leos Carax, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Retrospective, Review
  • Girl on: Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’

    Girl on: Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’

    The opening shots make it clear, here’s a film where the constant, predictable actions of a computer have superseded reality. The digital, with it’s rules and frameworks, the fact that everything has to be somewhere and commanded and traceable makes it a damn sight more real than the mess that we live in.

    E Warren

    August 5, 2019
    Film, Review
    Blackhat, Chris Hemsworth, Cinema, Film, Films, Holt McCallany, Leehom Wang, Michael Mann, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Retrospective, Review, Tang Wei, Viola Davis
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