Few genres are as instantly recognisable as Film Noir. During the 40s and 50s Hollywood produced a large collection of …
Few genres are as instantly recognisable as Film Noir. During the 40s and 50s Hollywood produced a large collection of …
Film genres typically promise familiarity, comfort, a guarantee to meet the audience’s expectations. A comedy implies jokes and romance hints …
Just because a film is funny does not necessarily mean it is a comedy.
The term film noir was coined in the late 1940s by French critic Nino Frank, but it wasn’t adopted by …
“Gentlemen! You cannot fight in here! This is the War Room!” This iconic line is shouted by a fictional US …
Murder, armed robbery, conspiracy, betrayal; the crime genre has brought us some of cinema’s most ruthless villains and enigmatic heroes. …
In the early 1970s, blaxploitation (or blacksploitation) became a popular subgenre of film emerging from the US. Uniquely, these films …
Whether shouting at the heroes or jumping out of your skin, the horror movie is king when eliciting a visceral …
Sci-Fi has always been a genre of adventure and excitement, a place to break new ground, both in storytelling and …