2013 | HEAUX CULTURE

It's Hammer Time

Yes. Yes I did use that pun.

Adding A Dash OF Colour

The surprising effect that seeing some of our most famous historical pictures in colour can have...

Haunted by a Native Son: Thoughts on Richard Wright's Masterpiece

"You cannot make me do nothing but die"

Double Double Toil And Trouble

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Er...a witch, obviously!"

<i>Edgar Allan Poe:</i> The Darkest Things Can Be Found Within Yourself

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Real Horror Is Found In the Everyday Story

If you really want nightmares this Halloween...

This Month's

What sums up France perfectly? Yep, you guessed it...their beautiful women.

The Intouchables (2011): A Beautiful Bromance

Things aren't always just black and white

Thoughts on James Baldwin's Essay <i>Equal In Paris</i>

The laughter of the unaffected...

<i>Le Gone du Chaâba</i>: Wide-eyed innocence from Azouz Begag

A French Algerian's autobiographical novel about growing up in the slums

<i>Les Revenants:</i> A Slow Burner

French Zombie Apocalypse...pfft.

La Haine (1996): <i>'The World Is Yours'</i>

It's not the fall that matters...It's the landing.

This Month's

There's one member of Hollywood whose spent his whole life dealing with one preoccupation ...

There's something about Manet: <i>Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe</I>

Nudity, beardy men, food... sounds like my kind of picnic!

Only God Forgives (2013): An Obsession With Revenge

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind

The Road to El Dorado (2000): Bright Shiny Things

I don't understand how people can forget about this one...

Devoted to Destruction: Love in Bronte's <i> Wuthering Heights</i>

Because everybody loves a Bad Boy, right?

Fatal Attraction (1987) <i>'I Mean, I'm Not Gonna Be Ignored Dan!'</i>

Glenn Close teaches the audience about so much more than avoiding Bunny Boilers...

This Month's:

June's theme has been 'Bright Young Things', and there could only ever be one...

Y Tu Mama También (2001): <i>'Do You Ever Wish You Could Live Forever?'</i>

None of that Hollywood crap romanticising sex and death, it's all about reality.

Spring Breakers (2012): <i>'Bikinis 'n' Big Booties Ya'll'</i>

Harmony Korine's film is a 16 year-old-boy's wet dream.

<i>Child Genius:</i> A Blessing Or a Curse?

What do you do when your kid is an actual 'know-it-all'?

Damsels In Distress (2011): You Think You Had Problems...

There are so many important life lessons these girls want to teach you.

Wasted Youth: A Warning From Fitzgerald's <i>Tender is The Night</i>

Forget Gatsby, this is the best novel Fitzgerald ever wrote...

This Month's:

May's theme has been 'Outsiders' - here are a few of our faves...

<i>Luther:</i> Alice + John 4ever

Why can't they get married and have babies and live happily ever after?

Talhotblond (2009): Internalised misogyny from Barbara Schroeder

The dangers of the internet, with a side order of sexism

West Of Memphis (2012): <i>'This is nothing out of the ordinary'</i>

When being an Outsider costs you your life

Jean Rhys: <i>'I'm a stranger and always will be' </i>

Falling in love with the perennial outsider; Jean Rhys

Pariah (2011): <i>'I'm not running, I'm choosing.'</i>

Director Dee Rees' debut feature-length about learning to live for yourself

Working Class Hero: Cromwell in Hilary Mantel's <i>Bring Up The Bodies</i>

Exploring the man behind Hilary Mantel's triumphant Bring Up The Bodies

Laid Bare: Girls in Dijkstra's <i>Beach Portraits</i>

A tribute to the alienation of adolescence

Paris Is Burning (1990): <i>'It's Got To Be Real'</i>

A love letter to Jennie Livingston's seminal documentary on NYC ball culture

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