Archive - The Quiet Axis

The Monster’s Mercy: Predicting Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein returns when the future breaks down.

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July 2025

The Villain’s Passport: How Hollywood Weaponised Accents and Faces

In the world of film why does evil and the enemy so often speak with a foreign accent?

Jul 30 •

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Troubled Frames III: “What’s Róisín Irish For?”

Maeve (1981) and the Rebellion of the Untranslatable Body

Jul 22 •

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Double Exposure: The Woman Who Broke the Contract: Jocelin Donahue in Oren Shai’s The Frontier

Double Exposure is a recurring essay series on The Quiet Axis that re-evaluates overlooked or misread film performances, especially by women, through a…

Jul 17 •

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Cinema After Censorship: What’s Left When Nothing’s Off Limits?

In contemporary cinema, creative freedom is no longer radical but the baseline standard.

Jul 15 •

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Troubled Frames II: Bloody Sunday on Film, Behind the Glass

The Memory That Film Makes

Jul 8 •

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Double Exposure: The Comeback (2026) Completes the Three Act Tragedy and Valerie Cherish Is the Sacrifice

In 2026, The Comeback will return for a third season, its second resurrection in a media landscape that has finally caught up with the woman it once…

Jul 2 •

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Troubled Frames: Cinema and the Colonial Gaze in Northern Ireland

The cinematic landscape of Northern Ireland remains both politically fraught and narratively unresolved.

Jul 1 •

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June 2025

The Death of Cinema: How We Stopped Watching Together

The psychological rupture behind cinema’s audience crisis

Jun 25 •

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Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985): A Labyrinth with No Minotaur

The Masculine Unconscious and the Architecture of Containment

Jun 18 •

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The Christopher Nolan Problem

Cinema, Control, and the Fear of Feeling

Jun 11 •

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Death in the Greenhouse: Working Women and Cinematic Punishment in 90s Thrillers

A psychoanalytic excavation of ambition, guilt, and female rivalry in 90s thrillers

Jun 4 •

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