The Offworld Colonies

A chance to begin again - and a look at movies

Friday, 15 February 2019

Mediocrity

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Crackdown 3 (Microsoft, 2019) A Quiet Place (Paramount, 2018) Most of us exist in the normality of everyday life. We go to ...
Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Summer 2017

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Summer 2017 - An Analysis It has been fairly  widely   reported  that this has been one of the worst summers in recent memory for ...
Monday, 20 May 2013

He Cried Incredulously...

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"Can't repeat the past?" One of my top five films ever, Baz Luhrmann's 2001 ode to the hedonistic lifestyle of 1800s Par...
Sunday, 7 April 2013

Relics...

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So I discovered, while cleaning my old PC, all of my university level film pieces. As such, I thought I would share one, which I found inter...
Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Women-Games-Cinema

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It has most definitely been a while, however I feel that it is an important time to update this blog with something that has been popping up...
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Sunday, 19 June 2011

The Laws of Diminishing Returns.

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Summer - Blockbusters - Massive Box Office Reciepts. Or so the formula goes. Yet 2011 has still to yield a film that people will rejoice for...
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Monday, 9 May 2011

Sequelitis

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It has been a while, for sure, Blogspot, but this page refuses to die, and anger at the current state of mainstream Hollywood refuses to di...
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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Inside ME?

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Michael Winterbottom has been a film-maker that I have admired for a long time. I enjoyed
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Allegories

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Having now seen Robin Hood, I realised how much it was an allegory of our time. There's trouble with the economy because the king is fig...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

The Past...

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It's a widely regarded belief amongst theorists that Science Fiction films and novels speak more about the present than the future. Cons...
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Take it back...

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There's a particular strand of Japanese Horror that, unlike say the avenging spirits of Ju-On, Ringu, or the daikaiju eiga (giant mons...
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Got the job.

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Audition. Not like my usual posts. I'm just saying what this post will be about. It's going to be about Takeshi Miike's Odishon ...
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Monday, 29 March 2010

Alive and Kicking

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The superhero movie has had a torrid decade. It's odd to think that it has only been ten-odd years since Raimi's Spider-Man relaunch...
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