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George A. Romero, Land of the Dead

It could also be called Barbarians at the Gates. In the trailers, the speaker announced that Romero returns to the genre that he invented which is of course a half-truth. There have been plenty of zombie films before Romero, such as I Walked with a Zombie. However, the use of the zombie as one of [...]

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Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ as the ultimate action film

Action films have since their inception been full of Christ-like imagery. This use of the action hero as a symbolic Christ suffering for the people he rescues was consolidated and emphasised during the 1970s and 80s, particular with films such as Dirty Harry and the ‘muscular movies’ such as First Blood, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, [...]

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