Tom Jolliffe on playing with character perspective to take the audience exactly where you want them… In the history of cinema, many writers and directors have sought to transfix an audience and take them to very deliberate places. Sometimes these tales fire straight like an arrow, leading us on a linear and clear path, with […]
Nihilism in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe on cinema’s fascination with nihilistic film characters… Nihilists…rejecting all values, beliefs, morals and systems of order, deeming life to be meaningless. Sounds like most peoples teenage years. On the other hand, as far as creating cinematic protagonists, a character with a nihilistic frame of mind might not necessarily seem like the safest creative […]
Ten Essential Serial Killer Films
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential serial killer films… Cinema has long had a fascination with the macabre. The serial killer film has been a staple since the silent period with films tending to cross between an array of genre, most notably drama, thriller and horror (and in more recent cinematic history, black comedy). There […]
The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #9 – Film critic Bianca Garner discusses American Psycho
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite movie. This week, critic Bianca Garner chats about American Psycho… This week, film critic Bianca Garner is the guest and she has decided to discuss the slimy corporate satire American Psycho, in which Christian Bale plays […]
Margot Robbie turns American Psycho
Over at Vogue, Margot Robbie has taken to parodying – rather well – the rather fantastic American Psycho which started Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon and Jared Leto. In the short – directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost – we witness Margot Robbie go through the numerous steps to the beginning of her […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 7 – American Psycho (2000)
American Psycho, 2000. Directed by Mary Harron. Starring Christian Bale, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon and Willem Dafoe. SYNOPSIS: Patrick Bateman is a wealthy and successful banker living a luxurious life of expensive dinners and coke-fueled nights of clubbing in 1980s New York. Unbeknownst to his friends, Bateman is also a crazed serial killer divulging in […]
