Martes at the Movies Briony Conway

Be warned, here there be spoilers. Spoilers ahead. X on the map marks the spoiler. Spoilerly waters coming up. Have I made myself understood? I will try my very best to talk in as general terms as possible about the relationship between these songs and spoilery movie endings, but I’ll probably end up mentioning at […]

So we’ve talked about the villains, now it’s time for the heroes, by which I mean by the way, both male and females, They are the protagonists, the goodies, the main characters, who are usually noted for their courageous actions.. Admittedly, because they are the ones who drive the plot along, and we as the […]

The huge, sweeping, over the top romantic gesture is a staple of the romantic comedy, the romantic non-comedy, and basically any movie featuring a romantic plot, sub plot, or thread of some sort. Movie couples are very rarely low-key about anything, are they? Public declarations of love are more than common, and the bigger the […]

Now this is a subjective episode indeed, if ever a subjective episode I did see.  It’s got double the opinions. I’m defining what I think are good songs, and what I think are not so good movies. There’s plenty of room for controversy here. To me it’s pretty easy to define whether or not a […]

Almost everyone’s got a favourite band, choir, or other type of musical ensemble, right? Whatever the style of music that you like, across every genre from country, to hiphop, by way of choral and classic rock, for generations upon generations people have been coming together to make music. And it’s great, the whole collaborative process…sparking […]

I’m not sure what exactly it says about me that my favourite song off any given movie soundtrack is almost always the villain’s song. When I was about ten years old I took a presumably highly scientific quiz online which decided which Hogwarts house I belonged in…and it did put me in Slytherin , so […]