Online Archive

From March 2022 to March 2024, The Film Pupil was an entirely online publication. It started as monthly, then shifted to a loosely bi-monthly output. Many of the contributors remained during the shift to in-print on August 2024, with some articles also being physically re-published.

March 2024
“I don’t know if I like it”: Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla in all its flawed glory.
by Emily Costello
Why Do We Love the Bad Boys? The Romanticisation of Toxic Relationships.
by Isabel Hodges
How Hooper’s 1974 Masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Slashes Audience Expectations.
by Eda Gokcen
Natural Born Critiques; How Stone Uses Form to Criticise Different Mediums.
by Fionn Morris
Faux Advertising: Products and Billboards Within Films.
by Oliver Spicer
December 2023
Sharp Laughter; The Slasher Genre Throughout the Decades and it’s Absurdist Satire.
by Fionn Morris
Is Film a New “Affirmation of the Spirit of Man”?
by Bryn Gatehouse
Halloween and the Horror Movie Soundtrack.
by Emily Costello
A Scene of Shadows from Casablanca.
by Oliver Spicer
September 2023
The Alien Feminine: Birth and Pregnancy as a Horror Spectacle.
by Emily Costello
Interview with Laura Citarella, director of Trenque Lauquen.
by Oliver Spicer
My Obsession with Dirty Dancing and its Catering to the Female Gaze.
by Chloe Buxton
Portrayals of Femininity in Nichols' The Graduate.
by Eda Gokcen
The Weeknd, Harry Styles, & the Singer to Actor Pipeline: Maybe You Just Can’t Do Both?
by Isabel Hodges
July 2023
Hyperlinks Through the Lens; The Internet's Dual Aesthetics in Cinema.
by Fionn Morris
Fascism in Film 4 - Il Conformista.
by Bryn Gatehouse
Do Blondes Really Have More Fun? Hollywood’s Fetish for Platinum.
by Emily Costello
Barbie & Oppenheimer.
by The Writers
The Fingerprints of Auteurs.
by Oliver Spicer
June 2023
Sill Life is Still Life: Asteroid City, with Wes Anderson Q&A at BFI Southbank.
by Isabel Hodges
Back to the Future – Metaphysics of Time and Time Travel
by Bryn Gatehouse
The Scream Franchise: Revitalizing the Slasher Genre!
by Emily Costello
Dogme 95 – A Spectre is Haunting Europe
by Fionn Morris
Bicycle Thieves and the Scale of Stories
by Oliver Spicer
April 2023
Bloodshed and Beethoven: Music as a conscious element in A Clockwork Orange.
by Emily Costello
Film Censorship in Hollywood: The Hays Code.
by Ruby Gerhardt Greco
The Demise of the Teen Dystopian Movie.
by Isabel Hodges
Hope on the Horizon: A New Wave of Support for Female Filmmakers.
by Chloe Buxton
The Wicker Man; The Folk Horror Flame.
by Fionn Morris
January 2023
Genre and Spectacle in Jordan Peele’s Nope.
by Eda Gokcen
The Experience Section: Movie Piracy.
by Max Mason
Apocalypse Now: the Failures of Moral Philosophy in the Case of War.
by Bryn Gatehouse
Eye Motion: Experience, Emotion, & Emulation.
by Oliver Spicer
Oscars Prediction 2023
by The Writers
December 2022
Please Stop the Terrible Hallmark Movie Invasion.
by Isabel Hodges
Billy Idol's 'Dancing with Myself' Horror Film Aesthetic.
by Fionn Morris
'That's Hot!' The Fetishization of Mentally Ill Women in film.
by Emily Costello
Does portrayal of Drug Use in Film & TV Provoke Higher Use?
by Katerina Kamysheva
On Voiceovers and Narrators.
by Oliver Spicer
November 2022
Making the Movie Gangster II: Aethetics, Identity and Italians; The Godfather.
by Fionn Morris
The Lolita-ification of Hollywood.
by Isabel Hodges
The Rise and Fall of the Spoof Genre
by Rhys Jones
Triangle of Sadness and the Poor Representation of Asian Characters in Film.
by Chloe Buxton
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Texture and Mortality
by Oliver Spicer
October 2022
Blonde: a Bleak, Bleached Bore.
by Katerina Kamysheva
Making the Movie Mobster 1: Criminals on Camera.
by Fionn Morris
Fascism in Film 3 -Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters.
by Bryn Gatehouse
Tim Burton in Glorious Colour; A Deep Dive into Burtonism.
by Emily Costello
Control and Choice in Viewing: Are We Tied down or Free to Leave?
by Oliver Spicer
September 2022
The Craft : Witchcraft and Women.
by Emily Costello
Experience: Bullet Train , Feltham Cineworld.
by Max Mason
The Lost Daughter and Representations of Motherhood in Media.
by Chloe Buxton
Why is Patrick Bateman your idol? The Internets Frenzy with the Modern Sigma Male.
by Isabel Hodges
Chaos, Dinosaurs, and Narrative Theory.
by Oliver Spicer
August 2022
A Trip Through the Beginnings of Cinema.
by Ruby Gerhardt Greco
Apocalypse Now and the Apocalyptic Reality of its Production.
by Rhys Jones
Incantation.
by Eda Gokcen
Fascism in Film 2: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
by Bryn Gatehouse
Paper Moon: The Symmetry of Cinematic Lies.
by Oliver Spicer
July 2022
Fascism in Film: Part 1 - Schindler’s List.
by Bryn Gatehouse
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Exploring Film as a Medium for Political Impact.
by Chloe Buxton
NOW That's What I Call: Camp!
by Isabel Hodges
Goya III: Witches in the Woods and on the Walls
by Fionn Morris
Dividing & Combining Film.
by Oliver Spicer
June 2022
Black Swan to Spencer, When Will Male Filmmakers Stop Torturing Women?
by Emily Costello
Ti West’s X And the Disturbing Spectacle.
by Eda Gokcen
Finding a Job in Film.
by Jacob Rose
The Rise and Fall of the Western.
by Luke Maguire
The Chemistry of Photographic Film.
by Oliver Spicer
May 2022
The Death of the Rom-Com.
by Isabel Hodges
Kung Fu Panda: Wuxia Media and Ancient Chinese Philosophy.
by Rhys Jones
Should Films be Moral?
by Luke Maguire
Goyaism II: Dr. Caligari, Monsters and Makeup.
by Fionn Morris
The Typeface of Film Titles.
by Oliver Spicer
April 2022
A Trip Down the Rabbit Hole of a Young Girl’s Coming of Age Dream.
by Eda Gokcen
The Evolution of the Batmobile.
by Zeeshaan Rahman
Authenticity, Artificiality & Performance in All About My Mother.
by Prem Dosanjh
The 2022 Oscars - A Disaster.
by Chloe Buxton
Macbeth On-Screen: Why Re-adaptation is not a Tragedy.
by Oliver Spicer
March 2022
Hollywood's Forgotten Female Past.
by Chloe Buxton
Cronenberg’s Crash – eroticism, the automobile, and death.
by Bryn Gatehouse
The Representation of Women in Horror: the Final Girl Trope.
by Emily Costello
The Gauge of Francisco Goya, The Painter's Impact on Cinema.
by Fionn Morris
The Dimensions of Cinema.
by Oliver Spicer