The Homework Club

After a week off due to technical difficulties, Cam and Shanara are back and they are discussing movies with a very specific cinema Trope; Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It is a character in film that is described as: "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writers-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures." MPDGs are said to help their men without pursuing their own happiness, and such characters never grow up; thus, their men never grow up.

Bonjour et bienvenue au club des devoirs! Yes, this week we have taken a journey across the channel into France to bring you two absolute classics of French Cinema. The hugely popular Amélie and the gritty, political drama La Haine.

This week we chose movies with outstanding Soundtracks. The Clint Eastwood classic The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and the Coen Brothers musical romp: O Brother, Where Art Thou

Episode Twenty eight. Absolutely huge episode this week. We watched a total of 6 movies this week to be able to discuss some of the best movies we've done so far!

We're back! We've had a break over Christmas but now we are back into full swing. We have started this year with a look at one of our favourite directors: Wes Anderson.

Episode Twenty-six.

It's chrrriisssttmaaaaassssss!

We're so excited to present our Christmas episode.

We both agreed that Home Alone is the hands-down best Christmas movie of all time so we did that and then picked another two to discuss.

Cam picked the one-big-advert, Arnie classic: Jingle All the Way

And Shanara picked the questionably Christmas: Nightmare Before Christmas.

Let us know what you would have picked!

Episode Twenty-Six.

Adventure time, come on bring your friends, we'll go to very distant lands. With Cam the Aussie and Shaz the Brit, the fun never ends.

It's adventure time!

We have strapped on our hiking boots and packed our binoculars for this weeks episode. Adventure Movies!

Cam picked the dinosaur epic, Jurassic Park and Shanara picked the worryingly scary board game based adventure, Jumanji!

Episode Twenty four.

We were joined by our good friend Daniel Farley. He chose Ghostbusters and described it as a movie that gives you exactly what you expect. We wracked out brains and decided that another great example of this is the blockbuster B-movie, Machete.

Episode Twenty-Three.

Loved recording this one. These movies are both so uniquely funny, it was a pleasure to talk about them.

Cam picked Napoleon Dynamite and asked Shanara to focus on:

-Napoleon

-The Dynamite family

-The style

-the overall weirdness of it all.

Shanara picked Little Miss Sunshine and asked Cam to focus on:

-the dads story arc

-depiction of beauty pagents

-the brother sister relationship

Let us know what other quirky movies you'd have chosen!

Episode Twenty two. We completed our second assessment task.

We discussed British cinema as a whole.