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His Dark Materials: Secrets of Cittàgazze and the Meaning of Pan’s Different Forms

The terrible problem of creating sets for film and television, says His Dark Materials production designer Joel Collins, is that the very best work is invisible. “When you build a world that isn’t real but looks real, everyone thinks you didn’t do anything! You must have just stayed at home or popped along to Oxford and dialled it in.” “Or you just went to Italy,” laughs Framestore VFX Supervisor Russell Dodgson, whose team are responsible for, among many other computer-generated elements, His Dark Materials’ daemons. To make Cittàgazze, one of season two’s big new locations, the team didn’t just go…
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His House Ending Explained – the Apeth, the Ghosts and the Meaning of the Title

Remi Weekes debut movie, His House, has taken Netflix by storm. It’s a very current story of two Sudanese refugees who are given asylum in Britain but under some oppressive conditions including that they must not work and they must not leave the house which they are assigned. But the couple has brought something with them on their journey and the two are tormented inside the squalid house by ghosts and apparitions who live in the walls but can inflict very real damage on the pair. His House is social commentary but also an out and out horror. It also…
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Fear the Walking Dead Bounty Hunter: Who Is Emile and What Is the Meaning of the Key?

Poor Morgan Jones has seen better days after being shot and left for dead in the Fear the Walking Dead season 5 cliffhanger, but he quickly learns in the season 6 premiere that the gangrene eating away at his flesh is the least of his worries. There’s an axe-wielding bounty hunter named Emile LaRoux (Demetrius Grosse) on his trail, hired to collect Morgan’s head for Virginia, who is too much of a coward to finish the job herself. Emile ends up being nothing more than a one-off villain meant to spark new life in Morgan, who had lost the will…
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Tenet Meaning Explained: Putting the Title in the Context of the Movie

Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, Tenet, has now arrived in UK cinemas. It’s a great big spectacular espionage film turned sci-fi extravaganza which comes with a lot of questions, the most obvious of which could be ‘what does Tenet even mean?’ In the world of the movie, the word has multiple meanings. Here we break them down. Spoilers for Tenet to follow. Tenet the word Very basically, it means “a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy”. In the film it’s less about religion as such and more about philosophy – a belief, a…
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Fortnite Versus Apple: 1984 Video Meaning Explained

Fortnite has been removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Apple and Google’s decisions to remove the gaming app from their digital storefronts seemed to come out of nowhere but this situation has actually been brewing behind the scenes for quite some time. That would actually explain how Fortnite developer Epic Games could respond so quickly to Apple’s action, posting a video short titled “Nineteen Eighty Fortnite” which takes some…less than subtle jabs at the tech giant. Yet, once you get past some of the video’s obvious visual gags, you’ll find that this short actually features quite…
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Is There a Hidden Meaning in The Invisible Man Ending?

This article contains major The Invisible Man spoilers. The Invisible Man is an excellent horror film packed with shocks and scares and with a fun ending which contains several twists. But it’s possible director Leigh Whannell might have intended to pull the rug out from under the viewer one last time, offering the opportunity for a very different alternative reading of what actually happens to Cecilia. In the ending we see onscreen, Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) escapes the institution she’s locked in, is cleared of killing her sister and is able to exact a fitting revenge on her abusive husband Adrian…
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