SH: There's another layer in there, in that you're certainly very knowledgeable about cinema, and these come through in the various references in there, the clearest one being the Goddard crime-flick reference, as well as the odd Hitchcock reference.
He interprets indefatigably, flicking off references to Yeats, William Morris, even Boethius (of "The Consolations of Philosophy" fame) like so much cigarette ash, scattering his pithy aperçus to the winds — where, as he sometimes appears to know, they belong.
Yet with one effortless flick of a porn reference, she's spun this rather specialist issue right into the middle of the media's attention.
On the surface, Mr. Kelly's film is a pastiche of horror flick and teenage comedy references: the depressed protagonist who reaches through a medicine cabinet mirror; the teacher (Ms. Barrymore) who's just as haunted as her students; the invisible friend who turns real -- and evil.
Jordan's deeply odd werewolf flick is highly sensual, riddled with references to Eden (snakes and apples pop up regularly) and centres on sexual maturity, innocence lost and the horrors of puberty.
Style -- that ineffable something or other -- has never seemed farther from a flick of tulle around a wrist; increasingly, it's sly reference woven into sly reference, something overthought, overwrought and overbought.
The runaway Netflix series is known for its twist on the classic stylings of sci-fi and horror flicks, carrying heavy nostalgic references to earlier tentpole works that defined a quarter of a century of film.
In "Shaun of the Dead," it was zombie flicks; in "Hot Fuzz," it was action movies, with notably loving reference to "Bad Boys II".
And there are also, as anyone who's ever had the misfortune to flick through Terry Richardson's work can tell you, the yawn-worthy references to oral sex.
Flick through the dense, buzzword heavy document entitled Qatar 2022 Strategic Plan 2012-15 and you'll see endless references to how it fits into the "Qatar National Vision 2030".
Extremities tend to flick.
