http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sun, 19 May 2013 20:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/20/from-the-hunger-games-to-kick-ass-how-hollywood-is-falling-back-in-love-with-heroines/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/20/from-the-hunger-games-to-kick-ass-how-hollywood-is-falling-back-in-love-with-heroines/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:34:32 +0000 Kieran Turner-Dave http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=30971 In the 1985 comic strip The Rule, Alison Bechdel introduced a simple test that troublingly highlighted the gender bias present in mainstream movies.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/20/from-the-hunger-games-to-kick-ass-how-hollywood-is-falling-back-in-love-with-heroines/feed/ 7 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:05:29 +0000 Tim Greiving http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25449 Summertime means summer movies, and as usual this year’s fare is a mixed bag. My personal interest in a new batch of films is the original music that accompanies them. I’m an enormous film score geek, you see, and whilst summer blockbuster season doesn’t always bode well for someone with my musical interests (great scores just as often accompany the sleepy dramas tucked between major movie “seasons”), it at least signals a glut of big-budget, potentially exciting projects that tend to have big scores attached.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-cinematic-sounds-of-summer/feed/ 2