Film

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

Birds as punctuation, punishment, and symbols of the unsayable

Basement thriller I Came By sheds light on social invisibility, and unmasks the problem with class

Unpacking survival, sacrifice and genre rules in space horror Life

Exploring the dance dynamics in Napoleon Dynamite, a comedy about being yourself – because who else can you be?

Identity is unpredictable in 2011 psychological thriller Unknown – and that spells trouble for its protagonists

Scientists find an alien sphere at the bottom of the ocean, but it opens a Pandora’s box of misery