Tag: Bob Hoskins

The Art of the Reference in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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Detective falling with rabbit & mouse.

|Jackson Stern| I remember when I was eleven or twelve and I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the first time. Around the age of ten, I caught the cinephile bug after discovering classics like King Kong and Casablanca but before that Continue reading

Going Out Like a Raspberry Ripple: Competing Nationalisms in The Long Good Friday

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|Sophie Durbin| When distilled down to one sentence, the plot of The Long Good Friday might go something like this: “An English gangster, two American businessmen, and some Irish nationalists all have a very bad day.” It reads like the opener to a deadpan joke at a party full of… Continue reading