Fight Club (1999) explained: vandals with dirty faces
Making sense of Fight Club’s twisted narrative and duplicated identities
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Narratives that explore the dark side of superhero tropes
alt superheroes
Narratives that explore the dark side of superhero tropes
The Fly (1986) explained: the killing kind
Metaphor and transformation in David Cronenberg’s The Fly
The Matrix (1999): better than life?
A computer hacker wakes up to reality – but is the Matrix just another lucid dream?
Brightburn (2019) explained: superheroes, serial killers … and Satan?
How Brightburn flips the superhero genre
Unbreakable (2000) explained: are heroes born, made or found?
From sole survivor to saviour – and back again
Visions of beastliness: Horror movie Split (2016) explained
Motifs of predator and prey are everywhere in Split, but The Beast isn’t the only hunter