DR. JEKYLL feels right at home in the Hammer Horror tradition
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
There’s much to commend here, and is a welcome return for a British studio with such a rich horror history. Long live Hammer!
Romance Week: Slow Burn love – “We’re already sick of each other, it’s the best”
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
The term “slow burn romance” usually conjures up images from literary and period romances. However, the slow burn romance can be used well in the modern rom-com, particularly in my favorite romance trope: “friends to lovers.”
How to Start Watching: Frankenstein Flicks
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
It’s hard to overstate the importance and influence of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein on the literature that came afterwards, and then, as soon as cinema was born, the science fiction and horror movie genres
Appointments with Death: Agatha Christie on Screen Part 2
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
In part two, Fiona looks at the more recent adaptations and Christie-adjacent work on screen!
Appointments with Death: Agatha Christie on Screen Part 1
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Agatha Christie has a long history with film and TV adaptations, and they’ve certainly ridden waves of popularity and dips where they’ve pretty much ceased all together.
Flop and Fizzle #8: Before quiet quitting, there was OFFICE SPACE
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Office Space is a perfect encapsulation of Y2K panic and represents one of the last gasps of Gen-X 90s ennui before 9/11 changed everything.
I Want Candy: Accessories that reveal Status and Eroticism in Period Films across Four Decades
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Accessories have always had huge importance in fashion throughout the centuries and reveal much about the social status of the wearer
How to Start Watching: The Neo-Noir Boom of 1980-1992
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
While 1940s noirs made stunning use of the shadows, silhouettes and sharp angles that crisp black and white photography provided, the 80s neo-noir had a very different feel.
Spielberg Week: Childhood, memory, and memoir in the films of Steven Spielberg
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
Two of the main preoccupations of Steven Spielberg’s career have been childhood, and exploring stories inspired by real events – often with a flexible approach to the truth.
Demented Department Stores, Decadent Dresses and Devilish Dummies: MANNEQUIN and IN FABRIC
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Department stores mean much more to people than just being temples of retail and have more soul than anonymous malls.
A Tour Through 10 David Bowie Movies
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
The upcoming release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream may prompt those who aren’t that familiar with David Bowie – The Actor – to want to explore some of his film roles. Fear not, for we at MovieJawn have all you pretty things covered.
The British New Wave: The Loneliness of the Angry Young Man
by Fiona Underhill, Staff Writer
The British New Wave of the early 60s has never had the same cachet as its French namesake but, for me, it is much more significant
SUMMER OF STARS #5: Paul Newman
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
Newman on Heat – The Long, Hot Summer (Ritt, 1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks, 1958)
80s nostalgia and how the 80s looked back in three films shown at TCMFF 2022: Somewhere in Time (1980), Diner (1982) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
The past can be a dangerous place – you can get lost there.
THE DUKE is a rare working-class British period drama
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
While British period films and television shows are dime-a-dozen, international audiences are more used to experiencing the upper crust in things like The Crown and Downton Abbey.
MOTHERING SUNDAY leans into its period nature to show the fallout from WWI
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
A film that is very much about the past and about memory.
Their "hour upon the stage" – the best and worst of 5 versions of MACBETH on screen
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
With Joel Coen’s new adaptation of Macbeth coming to theaters on Christmas Day (and Apple TV+ on January 14), I’ve taken a look at some previous adaptations (and taken a look at the new one too) and I’m here to take you through their strengths and weaknesses.
The Colors of Henry James on Film
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
We are lucky to have these interpretations of James’s words on the cinema screen.
THE OTHER LAMB is a paragon entry in the folk horror genre
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
One of the best, but unfortunately underseen horror films about a cult, is Malgorzata Szumowska’s The Other Lamb (2019) starring Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman and Denise Gough.
BODY HEAT at 40: a stark reminder that movies used to be for adults
by Fiona Underhill, Contributor
The 80s were the golden-age of the neo-noir, when they collided with the erotic thriller to combust into hot, steamy, passionate movies full of sex, sweat, sharp clothes, cigarette smoke, saxophone-soaked soundtracks and sultry femme fatales.