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The Analysis as a Journey
To analyse means to watch again. To turn a largely «unconscious» process into a «conscious» one. To recognise, comprehend, describe and interpret
Thomas Hässler
Mar 21
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Film as Art: The Formal Process (1)
Seeing film as an art form requires that we become aware why a movie is the way it is, and not another. At the core of the matter is choice.
Thomas Hässler
Mar 14
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The Surrogate Shrink
Released 30 years ago, Gere, Basinger and Thurman could've made the perfect casting couch, but we were not ready for that conversation
Thomas Hässler
Mar 8
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REVIEW: 300 (2007)
Michael Fassbender big-screen debut! Doesn't that count for something? Ahu! Ahu! Ahu! (See? I brought better sub-headlines than you)
Thomas Hässler
Mar 4
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REVIEW: The New Mutants (2020)
These kids are in big trouble. No sequel looms over the horizon with such an anemic performance and reception in its first-run
Thomas Hässler
Feb 26
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The Two Minutes Orgasm
Or how Netflix inflates viewership data to fool you
Thomas Hässler
Feb 21
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REVIEW: Joker (2019)
Laughing all over its way to the bank and at its detractors, its massive commercial success "proved" one thing: No incel revolution happened
Thomas Hässler
Feb 18
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We Need to Talk About Benito
Like a mild Greek tragedy, writers can sometimes be cruel like the gods, even in a movie that it's supposed to feel good
Thomas Hässler
Feb 16
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REVIEW: Scream (1996)
Back in the 90s, when 'meta' wasn't a buzzword, this little slasher film was ready to disrupt the teen-horror sub-genre to its core
Thomas Hässler
Jan 14
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Through The Looking Glass: The Old Becomes The (Refined) New
With "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" out in cinemas, join me as I take a look at some of the visual effects of the original Ghostbusters
Thomas Hässler
Jan 10
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REVIEW: Frankenstein (1910)
"All Frankenstein films that followed assembled body parts from various corpses to make the monster. This is the only one where the monster is truly…
Thomas Hässler
Jan 7
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REVIEW: The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Nearly a decade after its first major appearance, Universal decided to exploit its mummy intellectual property and turned it into a quadrilogy reboot
Thomas Hässler
Jan 5
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