Kezia Tooby

In Review: Village at the End of the World

by Kezia Tooby 9 May 2013

Set in northwest Greenland, the titular village is Niaqornat, which has a meagre population of 59. These people are Inuits, living in colourful wooden homes with dramatic icebergs in the background and freshly hunted animal carcasses in the foreground. They follow the traditions of their ancestors by hunting seals, narwhals and even polar bears but [...]

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In Review: Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan on Blu-ray

by Kezia Tooby 16 April 2013

For anyone into stop-motion animation or special effects design, the name Ray Harryhausen will be an extremely familiar one. Even those with passing interest in film will more than likely have come across the name, whether in relation to his early work with pioneering Willis O’Brien on Mighty Joe Young (1949) or the terrifying skeleton [...]

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The Last Action Hero?

by Kezia Tooby 19 July 2011

By Kezia Tooby Do you remember a time when Hollywood action heroes were excessively muscular, swore a lot and could fight off swarms of enemies with their physicality alone? A time when heroes were never once affected by their injuries? If you cast your mind back to the Eighties and Nineties you will recall the [...]

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Movie Musings: Is cinema making a spectacle of itself?

by Kezia Tooby 26 April 2011

By Kezia Tooby Tom Gunning coined the term ‘the cinema of attractions’ in his 1986 essay ‘The Cinema of Attractions, Early Film, its Spectator and the Avant-Garde ’. Gunning considers early film, pre-1906, to be an attraction primarily due to the use of new and exciting technology, the main thrill for audiences was the abilities [...]

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