Skip to content A Screenscope Guest Entry by Tunde The first time I saw Shrek, I was just old enough to know that “do you think he’s compensating for something” was an insult, but not old enough to know what for. Years later, rewatching it in my world of spreadsheets, bills and council tax, it hit differently. What […]
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I’m learning guitar and writing songs. It’s hard. You have to be a certain type of person to do it – you want to make it sound original, true to you and able to stand the test of time. Mind you, I am writing for an audience of One, so I cannot imagine the weight
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“You get the limo out front (ooh) Hottest styles, every shoe, every colour Yeah, when you’re famous it can be kinda fun It’s really you but no one ever discovers” – Hannah Montana I don’t know if I have many poets reading this entry, but this kind of structure and audacity is what you should
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I watched an episode of ‘The Studio’, an Apple TV+ show about a Hollywood movie studio. In it, movie mogul Matt and his doctor girlfriend get into a disagreement about how film is as important as medicine, with Matt saying “what is on the wall of the patient rooms? A screen! … you heal life
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In 2024, I rated ‘Gouge Your Eye Out’ as my favourite blog of the year. It is poignant, speaking about the effect of content on our psyche and how we have to be cautious about how the media seeps into our lives. In the same spirit, we are taking a deeper dive into how film
I remember when I used to tune in every week to watch ‘How I Met Your Mother’. Naturally, the last season could only be classed as a schoolboy error, but other than that, it was the joy of knowing that for 20 or so weeks of my life, I was dedicating my time to it.
The blog today is one of my biggest sources of agony, a sore spot. Here is a list of some cancelled shows that I am still trying to get over. This list was even hard to compile because, for mental health, I decided to erase the shows from my brain. I’m sure that you have
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When you think of dance in film, what do you see? The ‘Dirty Dancing’ lift? Hoedown Throwdown from ‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’? Or maybe nothing really comes to mind anymore. I am an avid fan of the dance movie, so when it came to this month’s topic of genres that should return, I have decided to
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“You wanna play psycho killer? Can I be the helpless victim? No, please don’t kill me Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!” Welcome to another Screenscope Blog entry. An unhinged quote for an unhinged genre. ‘Scary Movie’ has been announced for a 2026 revival and this means the return of the spoof genre,
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The phrase ‘ball and chain’ has long been used pejoratively by husbands to describe their wives. It conjures the image of a man being weighed down and locked into a heavy ball that limits freedom. However, Screenscope would like to pose that women are also shackled by the ‘wife’ title in the media. There is
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