Doncaster Film Club – The Last Seduction
While erotic thrillers were ten-a-penny in the mid-90s, The Last Seduction has more in common with the noir films of the ’40s and ’50s. Think L.A. Confidential, not Basic Instinct. Joseph Vitarelli’s jazz score is wonderfully jarring, but it is Linda Fiorentino’s fierce and spellbinding performance that elevates The Last Seduction above many of its […]
Doncaster Film Club – Mean Girls
You know a film is good when its vernacular enters into the common lexicon. The Plastics, the Cool Mom, On Wednesdays We Wear Pink… the list goes on (although the film never did quite make ‘fetch’ happen). These phrases and concepts have come to shape and define what we think of as a ‘teen’ movie.Written […]