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Subtext | Classic Swedish Murder Mysteries
“Nordic noir” has been a popular genre in the English-speaking world since the 2000s, with the 2007 Danish drama The Killing’s breakout success a large factor. (In fact The Killing was much more successful in the UK than it had been in…
Subtext | Live Action Manga
I love anime. Wait, no, that’s not quite true. I love what the artform is capable of, and I love many of the stories told through it, but I will admit there’s plenty of trash anime out there. A lot of anime started out as manga, and moving…
When The Law Took Over | How the West Was Won 60th Anniversary Review
Much is revealed about How the West Was Won in the title alone. “The West” about which we are concerned is less a place than a way of thinking. With locations in Utah and California, we are geographically in recognisable terrain. What is…
Duncan Jax: North Carolina’s answer to James Bond | Film Feature
In the world of exploitation/genre films, you won't be too far from a familiar face. Be it a character actor like Michael Ironside or Tim Thomerson, or a producer like Charles Band or Roger Corman, the industry is shaped by a few…
Subtext | The Dead Rise
There are a lot of shows and movies from around the world that deal with different types of the living dead: zombies, vampires, and even stranger things. Writers like David McNally have drawn links between these monsters and people’s views…
Aftersun Feature | grief, memories, and the fragile fabric of human life
Aftersun is a touching directorial debut by Charlotte Wells, set in the late 1990s. It follows 11-year-old Sophie and her young father, Calum to a Turkish resort. Calum and Sophie's mother are divorced, and he does not live in his hometown…
Subtext | The Turbulent Twenties
A lot of history textbooks skip right over the period between the two World Wars as if little of importance happened in those two decades. Those that do mention them generally only hit the highlights - the death of Lenin in Russia, the US…
Subtext | Best Subtitled Streaming Titles of 2022
Happy New Year, and welcome to our Best of 2022 list. Or at least, our best “things I watched and haven’t already covered” list. There were a few good shows (like Tomorrow) that came out in 2022 and that we’ve already talked about. And…
What the Dickens! | The Muppet Christmas Carol at 30
‘Come in and know me better man!’ This Christmas marks the 30th anniversary of the release of The Muppet Christmas Carol. If you haven’t seen it, what kind of Muppet shaped rock have you been living under?
As a child I loved The Muppets…
Subtext | Merry Christmas!
It’s December, and all around the world people are getting ready to celebrate Christmas. Sometimes it’s easy for people in the English-speaking world to think that our version of Christmas is universal, but that’s far from the case. Even…