Movies

Daryl Sparkes, University of Southern Queensland Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, more likely, it makes you reinterpret what you thought Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTRaised on a sheltered paradise known as Paradise Island, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana then leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Now a new era of wonder begins… Fast forward to the Continue Reading

Humanity may not be awash in actual mutants or those with special powers – well, not yet anyway; who knows which way the evolutionary cookie may crumble – but the movies we watch certainly are. You can’t enter a cinema (figuratively anyway; literally, it’s a literal trickier in COVID-rampant 2020) Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTIn Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twisted couple (Jason Clarke and Riley Keough), and crooked sheriff (Sebastian Stan) — converge around young Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family. Spanning the time Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl showcases the best of the adventure genre by using key genre elements as fundamental building blocks of the story and character design. In this video, the LFTS team explores four critical components of classic adventure films, dives into the deeper Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTTriangulation is the story of a man who has a most unusual series of encounters while scouting some triangulation pillars in the British countryside. The short picks up [creator John] Panton’s childhood obsession with triangulation pillars (‘something about them being defunct but previously interconnected stuck with me,’ he told Gizmodo), Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTDespite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of Continue Reading

We all crave connection; that deep and abiding sense that we are part of something far bigger than our own insular self and that people actually care about us and want to be with us. Sure, we can exist in our existential bubble but if that’s all you have, then Continue Reading