Had the chance to pick over The Living Daylights with the chaps at Really, OO7! As always it was a delight chatting to them, and some other guests, turning over some of the fine details of Timothy Dalton’s first Bond film.
There’s a book on the way… The Vigilante Thriller: Violence, Spectatorship and Identification in American Cinema, 1970-76 from Bloomsbury…
Captain, there be spoilers here! Where to begin? I always had a slight ambivalence to the idea of rebooting…
Back in October I had the privilege to be part of a Fan Commentary for Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale!…
Full disclosure: Cobra is not a good or interesting film in any of the traditional ways. It lacks narrative…
There’s a bad old joke that goes somewhat as follows: A Native American chief is tasked with buying toilet…
In 1967 Stanley Fish published a seminal work that reconceptualised the understanding of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. In Seduced…
Released to a storm of controversy in Japan, Battle Royale, quickly developed a cult following in the West, no…
This article was first published by Bright Lights Film Journal on January 16 2018 (http://brightlightsfilm.com/watch-it-again-society-brian-yuzna-1989/). After nearly 30 years Society…
This paper was originally presented to London Film & Media 2011, and published in The London Film and Media…