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Planet of the Apes. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox. 1968.
Planet of the Apes. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox. 1968. 150 150 Amy Fuller

Planet of the Apes (1968), dir. Franklin J. Schaffner It is from the Planet of the Apes’s first encounter with its ‘more or less human’ characters that we are made aware of…

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  • Sophie Collingwood
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The Grey. Dir. Joe Carnahan. Inferno. 2012.
The Grey. Dir. Joe Carnahan. Inferno. 2012. 150 150 Sophie Collingwood

‘You are going to die. That is what’s happening.’ After spending five monotonous weeks working as a hired wolf exterminator ‘doing some of that sniper shit’[i] at an oil refinery in…

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  • Emma Redley
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Jaws. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Studios. 1975.
Jaws. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Studios. 1975. 150 150 Emma Redley

Jaws, Spielberg’s second major film[1] , released in 1975 is widely recognised as an important piece of cinema, with one of the most memorable and suspense building soundtracks of all time.…

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  • Rylie Vaccaro
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Planet of the Apes. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Twentieth Century Fox. 1968.
Planet of the Apes. Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Twentieth Century Fox. 1968. 150 150 Rylie Vaccaro

Planet of the Apes is a story that takes a look at what the world would be like if Apes filled the role of humans, and vice-versa. What the film…

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  • Katie Goody
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Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938.
Bringing Up Baby . Dir. Howard Hawks. RKO. 1938. 150 150 Katie Goody

In the romantic comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938) Hawks explores the association between animalism (behaviours or feelings associated with animals) and chaos. The comedy emerges out of the interactions between the unlikely…

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  • Amy Kinsman
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Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Dir. Benh Zeitlin. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2012.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Dir. Benh Zeitlin. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2012. 150 150 Amy Kinsman

Beasts of the Southern Wild is set in Bathtub, a poor and very ethnically-mixed community in the Louisiana Bayou separated from other civilisation by a levee, a backdrop which conjures up the…

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  • Catherine Stanford
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Godzilla. Dir. Ishirō Honda. Toho. 1954.
Godzilla. Dir. Ishirō Honda. Toho. 1954. 150 150 Catherine Stanford

Synopsis “If we continue to test nuclear weapons, another Godzilla may arise.” The closing line of Honda’s Godzilla, emphasised by a prolonged close-up of the speaker’s face, is proudly overt in its…

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  • Moss Goodwin
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Life of Pi. Dir. Ang Lee. 20th-Century Fox. 2011.
Life of Pi. Dir. Ang Lee. 20th-Century Fox. 2011. 150 150 Moss Goodwin

Ang Lees’s Life of Pi is a shipwreck film that depicts the epic journey of the main character Piscine ‘Pi’ Molitor Patel, whilst addressing many issues along the way such as those…

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