The Shape of Cinema

2015 is shaping up to be the year of the blockbuster.  From Star Wars to Avengers right back round to Fast & Furious 7, cinema is set up to be big, brash and a whole lot of fun.  Yet some people aren’t on board with this.  Some people think that cinema is become homogenized, that super hero movies and Michael Bay now dominate the big screen and because of it we are losing all those special little films that not everyone sees, but those who do never forget.

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Under The Skin

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Let’s just put this out there straight away, Under The Skin is weird.  There is no two ways about it, it’s just fact.  It’s part sci-fi, part horror and part psychological fuck up.  Directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson it’s been a bit of a personal project for the two of them to get this movie, based off of Michel Faber’s novel of the same name, onto the big screen in recent years.  Filmed in Glasgow it’s hardly the big box office smashes we have come to expect from Johansson and this is one of the most interesting films she’s done.

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