Tag Archives: Satire

Deconstructing Hollywood … for laughs: Hellzapoppin (1941)

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Kenneth George Godwin
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A friend who teaches film to university students occasionally offers a course in comedy. He’d originally thought it would be fun, but was quickly disillusioned. Of course, comedy, more than drama, tends to be specific to its context as jokes … Continue reading →

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Entering Other Worlds, part 2

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing these posts about one-off sci-fi movies by mainstream filmmakers, he pointed out that I’d left Norman Jewison off the list. I readily pleaded guilty, my only excuse being that I’d … Continue reading →

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March viewing: John Carter, The Hunger Games, Chronicle

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

As usual I seem to be out of sync with the current pop culture climate – of the most recent movies I’ve gone out to see, I enjoyed a colossal box office bomb, had serious reservations about the year’s biggest … Continue reading →

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Stanley Kubrick 5B: Science Fiction – A Clockwork Orange

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Kenneth George Godwin

Anthony Burgess wrote his short novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962 as a way of coming to terms with the rape of his first wife. It may seem odd then that the book takes the first person point of view … Continue reading →

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