Author: Emily Finan

  • Crocodile Dundee. Dir. Peter Faiman. Paramount Pictures. 1986

    “A city girl like you? You wouldn’t last five minutes, love. This is a man’s country out here.” – Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 action/comedy film, following the character of Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan), nicknamed “Crocodile” after being mauled by a crocodile, an Australian bushman, as he meets his eventual love…

  • Midsommar. Dir. Ari Aster. A24 Films. 2019

    – ‘So are we just going to ignore the bear then?’ – ‘It’s a bear.’ This sequence focalises through the eyes of the newcomers in unfamiliar territory and instills a sense of foreboding and uncomfortable mystery into the film through the conspicuous image of a caged bear. The questions brought about by the bear’s filmic…