Film

Film theories: cinema techniques, how to ‘read’ movies, and what makes them work.

Knock at the Cabin: apocalypse … now? | Review

A family face up to the prospect of Armageddon – but should they believe everything they hear?

The killing kind: rediscovering 80s horror The Fly

Metaphor and transformation in David Cronenberg’s The Fly

Hereditary (2018) and the meaning of madness

Making sense of fun-size houses and larger-than-life horror in Hereditary

Decoding Shutter Island (2010): true selves and hidden identity

Unpacking meaning, mental illness and story signposts in Scorsese’s Shutter Island

The Pale Blue Eye: Poe-faced thriller moves at a glacial pace | Review

For a story about a disembowelling serial killer, The Pale Blue Eye is astonishingly slow

Rebecca (1940) explained: the ghost, the devil and Mrs Danvers

Decoding the three faces of Mrs de Winter in Hitchcock’s Rebecca