Author: Dr. Karin Beeler University of Northern British Columbia Download PDF version The South Korean rock band Day6 released their song and music video “Zombie” on May 11, 2020 (followed by an English-language version on May 21, 2020) just a...
Download PDF version Alien by Ridley Scott was released on 25 May 1979, changing the paradigm of science fiction and horror. Based on a simple premise, Scott and his screenwriter, Dan O’Bannon, presented an alien which threatened the crew’s survival...
This monthly column provides an overview of the film landscape for all things American at the movies, including US characters, stories, settings, directors, stars and so on… Here I round up the upcoming theatrical releases, the forthcoming streaming highlights and...
This monthly column provides an overview of the film landscape for all things American at the movies, including US characters, stories, settings, directors, stars and so on… Here I round up the upcoming theatrical releases, the forthcoming streaming highlights and...
Download PDF version Y nació el asesino en serie considers an essential question: can US history be studied through the lens of its monsters? The serial killer is one of the most infamous monsters, featuring prominently in countless horror movies...
Download PDF version For anyone who has seen the film Unbroken (2014), one cannot avoid feeling sorry for the terrible time its protagonist, Louis Zamperini, had during his captivity at the Japanese internment camps for American prisoners in World War...
Download PDF version I’ve never wrote before about the Fifty Shades of Grey hodgepodge as it seems redundant. I’ve mocked it since the first book came out, because it is mock-worthy and the “fifty shades of” collocation lends itself to...
Download PDF version Just as this post was initially meant to be a short review of the film itself, Paul Schrader’s Cat People (1982) was initially meant to be a remake of a well-known 40s film with the same title....
Author: Juan Rodríguez Santos University of Alcalá Download PDF version If you polled Americans to identify which character in all cinema best represents American values, it is quite likely that many would choose Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). Without a doubt,...
Download PDF version If this were a script for the latest iteration of that beloved genre of election-themed films, you may think that it would best be classified under a specific sub-category, that of dystopian election films, with titles like...
