“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
The Overs Category in ‘The X Factor’ was notorious for featuring contestants that the public knew wouldn’t win. It was almost a given that surely, they were too old for stardom. Stella, you can’t get your groove back, go and sit down; your osteoporosis is kicking in. Mind you, The Overs is short for over-25s.
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This post is self indulgent. The time has come to talk about one of my favourite genres – the mockumentary. A mockumentary is a facetious or satirical work presented in the style of a documentary. A portmanteau of “mock” and “documentary”, a mockumentary gives the guise of a documentary by having the typical features such
