Inception – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 267

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All aboard the Louise Brooks train for the silent cinema legend’s wildest, nastiest and undeniably most hobo-packed outing: 1928’s Beggars of Life. Director William Wellman was coming off the back of the first-ever Best Picture Oscar winner, Wings. Is this a worthy successor? Off the Shelf kicks off with a […]

Why Modern Hollywood Hates Plot Twists

[WARNING: this article contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, all three Iron Man films, most of the Christopher Nolan Batman films, and, y’know, everything else.] Sitting down to watch Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden recently, I experienced a pleasure I’d almost forgotten about; […]