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Four Frames: Staring Into the Unknown in Bird Box

Post author By Chelsea Zhao
Post date March 27, 2021
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Susanne Bier’s Bird Box (2018) starts, like many horror-thriller movies, with a terrifying premise — a monster that gives the insane power and the innocent death. However, as the movie progresses, I have to wonder if the monster has a deeper meaning regarding the human psyche. Malorie (Sandra Bullock) refuses outside contact as she focuses on her artworks. […]

Tags Bird Box, four frames, Horror, Jacki Weaver, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Susanne Bier, Tom Hollander, Women Directors

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Four Frames: Tetsuo’s transformation in Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)

Post author By John Nugent
Post date June 19, 2012
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A cautionary metaphor for the dangers of unchecked power, or just a slice of Japanimation at its most ass-kickingly spectacular? Whichever way you look at it, the influence of Akira, the 1988 anime cult favourite, endures persistently. A nightmarish sci-fi yarn of motorcycle gangs and child psychics, of terrorists and telekinesis, amidst an imposing post-apocalyptic […]

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Four Frames: Harold’s long goodbye in The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980)

Post author By Tom Grater
Post date June 6, 2012
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The ending of John Mackenzie’s seminal British gangster film is regarded by many, this author included, to be a work of art, befitting the superb fall-from-grace story of London crimelord Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins). Having just abruptly ended a business deal with the New York mafia, “The mafia? I’ve shit ’em!” Harold storms into his […]

Tags four frames, gangster, suspense