Author Archives: Rob Ager

FULL METAL JACKET and the universal art of brainwashing by Rob Ager This article is a transcript of my video of the same title. The video can be downloaded for free on the film analysis page of my site www.collativelearning.com Let’s … Continue reading →

“Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual by Nathan Abrams” Book review and response by Rob Ager, March 2021 In late 2020 my attention was drawn to Nathan Abrams’ work by his article titled Kubrick and the Paranoid Style: Antisemitism, Conspiracy … Continue reading →

30) Airplane 2: The Sequel (1982) This is one of the many silly comedies that bombards the viewer with as many half-baked jokes as it can in the hope that half of them will stick. And it works. The setting … Continue reading →

On July 27th 2016 the Youtube film analysis channel Screen Prism published a video called “The Shining: Who is the man in the bear costume?” The video, which was credited to a writer named Jeff Saporito and which had since … Continue reading →

Ten years ago I started posting short film analysis videos on Youtube thinking it would just be a short term hobby that would only capture the interest of film students and film makers. What amazed me is that so many … Continue reading →

I’ve only just finished watching this movie so this is a very quickfire review, not a proper film analysis. Having read from a few sources that last year’s movie It Follows is one of the best, if not THE best, … Continue reading →

Last week I obtained a now rare DVD of the 1986 horror-comedy movie House … and a very nice trip down memory lane it was. Like A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday the Thirteenth, Hellraiser and other classic horrors, House … Continue reading →

Both of these films have been many times recommended to me by email as being worthy of deeper analysis so in the last couple of weeks I managed to watch both. While I’m not the type of viewer who demands … Continue reading →

Based on some of his mid-career works such as Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Naked Lunch and Existenz (several of which are on my to do list for future film analysis) David Cronenberg has long been a permanent figure among my … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago director Rodney Ascher contacted me to ask if I’d like to record an interview for a documentary film he was planning, which would showcase a variety of people’s interpretations of The Shining. The one thing … Continue reading →