Christmas in July #4: Home alone feeling scrooged? These Christmas movies deserve some love, actually (curated)

  Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia   The cultural environment in which we watch a film inevitably shapes our response to it. Engaging with the Yuletide ecology by watching Christmas films offers a genuine cinephilic pleasure, be it kitsch, ironic, or sincere. The following taxonomy is by no Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: Spell of the West – birds, a cowgirl and the mysterious Ax-Man

  Who is the mysterious Ax-Man and what is doing that’s traumatising the non-opposable thumb possessing and capacity for abstract thought-lacking birds that inhabit the cowgirl’s isolated cacti farm? Hint it’s not good and what starts out as three hysterical birds frantically trying to call attention to a serious, ever-growing Continue Reading