27 hidden references and clever jokes in 'Hercules' you probably missed as a kid

Disney's "Hercules" (1997) is a beloved animated retelling of the classic Hellenic myth, but even die-hard fans may not have caught all these hidden gems. The film is full of references to Hellenic mythology, including the tale of the Titans and the divine guests at Zeus and Hera's party. There are also jokes related to more recent cultural phenomena, like "Buns of Bronze" and the Marilyn Monroe constellation. Did you catch them all? Insider did! One of the ...

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Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom | Film-Philosophy

Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom Abstract In this article, I explore what I call the persecutory trope – which underscores the alterity of the phantom and its relentless haunting and spectral oppression of the protagonists – in recent American ghost films, connecting it to the ethical thought of the continental philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Films like The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002), The ...

Sisyphean Unproductivity in Narrative Film

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Sisyphean Unproductivity in Narrative Film | Film-Philosophy

Sisyphean Unproductivity in Narrative Film Abstract This article examines the relationship between labour, productivity and film. The purpose of this intervention is to suggest that narrative film can show us the unproductive tendencies that humans carry within them but that cannot always make themselves known. These leisurely desires erupt as musicality, ecstasy, and the undoing of the self when we carry out the repetitive gestures of work. T...

The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

Who Is Lun*na Menoh - Meta-Documentary Sacrifices Clarity For Self-Referentiality

Beginning with its titular question before falling down the rabbit-hole of meta-textual references, "Who is Lun*na Menoh?" works well as a primer for the Japanese-born conceptual artist, fashion designer, and musician. Adopting a triptych structure—which first establishes a portrait of Menoh before deconstructing the very nature of documentary—Jeff Mizushima’s film is, in the end, more about the nature of filmmaking, and the blurring of reality and fiction, then about the singular artist. Equ...

How to watch Dune

Dune – the new sci-fi blockbuster starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet – is free to stream on the HBO Max Ad-Free plan from 22nd October. Read on for how to watch Dune on HBO Max in 4K from any country in the world. This Dune movie tells the story of Paul Atreides (Chalamet), a brilliant and gifted nobleman entrusted with protecting the galaxy's most vital element from evil forces that are hellbent of wiping out humanity. An all-star Dune cast includes Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, ...

Day the Earth Caught Fire - The

Hello!We give thanks this summer Tuesday to CineSavant’s keenly curious associate Gary Teetzel, who has come through with another of his interesting and popular Trade Paper search expeditions. The main subject this time around is Val Guest’s 1962 sci-fi hit The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Or at least we were always told that it was a hit. The trades catered to exhibitors all across America, and what was reviewed as hip and exciting in NYC could fall flat on its face out in the sticks somewhere...

1980s Sci-fi Movies That Did and Did not Age Well

Given how quickly the world of science and technology evolves, it comes as no surprise that science fiction over the decades has transformed just as quickly. And, while most people might expect sci-fi films from the 80s to seem incredibly dated, there are actually a number of greats that still hold up really well. RELATED: 15 Scariest Episodes Of The Twilight Zone, Ranked But obviously, not every movie becomes a classic. For every unforgettable 80s movie, there is another that aud...

Fucking with Nobody – A meta movie which completely loses itself in its meta-ness

Share this Article Fucking with Nobody is a movie within a movie within a movie within a movie. I think I got the Russian doll right. Even if I haven’t, I don’t think the movie has it down either. Fucking with Nobody, directed by and starring Hannaleena Hauru, starts off as something relatively tame. After losing out on directing a feminist horror movie to her male colleague Kristian (who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend and is currently in a relationship with the scree...

Review: The Voyeurs Is an Audaciously Trashy Spin on Rear Window

Michael Mohan’s The Voyeurs pushes back hard on the trend of sex disappearing from movie screens by showing ridiculously attractive people in various states of undress and copulation. The film begins with an upwardly mobile twentysomething couple, optometrist Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and musician Thomas (Justice Smith), moving into their swanky new downtown Montreal loft. When they see the couple in the apartment across the way having passionate sex, Thomas says, "They must know," in response t...

Review: Life Is Strange: True Colors Makes It Too Easy to See the Game’s Flaws

Alex Chen, the protagonist of Life Is Strange: True Colors, describes her hidden superpower as a curse. And over the course of five chapters that hold the series’s traditional decision-making and character-building at bay, players may feel as if this leaden game is itself cursed. Alex’s power of empathy—as opposed to the first Life Is Strange’s time manipulation gimmick and the sequel’s focus on telekinesis—serves a singular passive purpose across the campaign as she interacts with puzzles an...

From Denis Villeneuve to Alfred Hitchcock: The 10 greatest movie plot twists

The enigmatic spontaneity of a movie plot twist is an experience like no other and remains one of the oldest cinematic tools to shock, surprise and captivate the audience. Just like the hidden dips and curves of a high-speed rollercoaster ride, you never quite know when, or indeed ‘if’, a twist will happen at all, making the narrative device one that harks back to the fleeting joys of cinema as a mere carnival attraction.  Filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan have ...

In Praise Of Movies That Just End (Because They Used To Know When To End)

Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece (that I, embarrassingly, had not seen until recently) is just under three and a half hours long. But it doesn’t feel long. And this is something I’ve been noticing more and more over the last year and a half – to the point I’ve been having trouble getting back on the same wavelength with modern movies. Because older movies used to "just end." The plot would be over and the credits would roll. Now, a couple of things that need to be pointed ...

Why Rick & Morty's Horse Cannibals Are Called CHUDS In Episode 5

Why Rick & Morty's Horse Cannibals Are Called CHUDS In Episode 5SourceURL: https://screenrant.com/rick-morty-chud-cult-horror-movie-differences-reference/ ...

Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on LOOK WHO’S TALKING

Part of the late ’80s mini-wave of baby movies, which includes 1987’s Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby, and 1989’s long-awaited Ghostbusters 2, Look Who’s Talking is, for my money, the most tolerable of the bunch thanks to writer-director Amy Heckerling’s script, which has some solid jokes and manages to avoid being overly cutesy given the premise. The story concerns single mother Mollie (Kirstie Alley), her son Mikey, and cab driver/part-time pilot/general loser James (John Travolta, in hi...

The Secret Life of words and The Piano - brief film analyses

[link ]     The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) and The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, 2005) are bookended by a peculiar voice-over, a childlike voice that surrounds the stories of the two protagonists, Ada and Hanna respectively. In The Piano, this narration is presented as the "voice of the mind" of Ada, who stopped speaking when she was six years old for reasons unknown even to herself. In The Secret Life of Words, the voice belongs to Hanna's dead daughter, an omniscient narration about...

Frontiers | Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in Talk | Communication

Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in TalkDepartment of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenPeople speak not only under relaxed conditions but also during strenuous activities, and grammatical resources can be used to achieve displays of strain. This study looks at the relationship between progressivity of talk and bodily strain, focusing on the practice of temporarily suspending syntax while the speaker is accomplishing a physically challenging task. B...

Body language of liars Part 2 – The Mast Online - themastonline.com

[By Humphrey M Kapau] When it comes to baking lies in the kitchen of manipulation using the oven of deception, humans are always the defending champions. The trophy always comes home. In fact, some lies that humans produce are as compacted as Zambian traditional bread made from sorghum or millet flour. Other lies are made puffy, airy, spongy and attractive like fried cakes (fritters). Professional liars even bake lies like some wedding cakes by layering, compacting and hardening t...

Classic Movies that Almost Had Different Endings

10 Classic Movies That Almost Had Different Endings | CBR - CBR - Comic Book Resources Cinema necessitates multiple cooks in the kitchen. Combined with the need for revision inherent to the creative process, many films end up different from how they were originally envisioned. RELATED: 10 Decent Movies With Amazing Last Acts There are 10 famous films with alternate endings conceived, scripted, or even filmed which differed from the final product, along with t...

Excerpts from Color and Meaning - John Gage

Now, focusing on this passage, some interesting ideas come up for me. -zas There’s the Titan Moon of Jupiter Titian Shade (Titian was a Painter - a copy of the article linked there is also retained in Evernote as well, here. ) -zas

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Get Reel: Dandy denouements: 20 films with great endings - Milford Daily News

Last month’s column focused on great movie openings. So, it’s only seems fair that this month’s column be devoted to great movie endings. Again, these may not necessarily be the greatest movie endings in cinematic history (though some certainly are), they just happen to be my personal favorites. Again, with a limited amount of space, the list numbers only 20. But before we begin, this column contains plenty of spoilers, so if you haven’t any of the following films, beware. You have been ...