Farah Cheded

Farah Cheded is a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects. Outside of FSR, she can be found having epiphanies about Martin Scorsese movies here and reviewing Columbo episodes here.
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Jane Campion Brings Bonkers Back With ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’

By Farah Cheded 

Returning after 4 years is Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s ambitious small-screen experiment in dishevelling the police drama, normally so sleek and methodical, to create a bizarre new breed: part-farce, part-noir.

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When the Sun Goes Dark: New Western to be Shot During Upcoming Eclipse

By Farah Cheded 

‘Western Sol’ will be a cinematic first when it’s live-streamed on August 21st.

Tom Holland Spiderman

This is Exactly What We Need From Hollywood Right Now

By Farah Cheded 

The new Spider-Man will battle Nazis in ‘Beneath a Scarlet Sky.’

American Vandal

Making Fun of ‘Making a Murderer’: Netflix’s Latest True Crime Series Comes with a Twist

By Farah Cheded 

‘American Vandal’ hints at a new era for the streaming service.

Jacob Batalon Spiderman

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Scene Stealer to Play Horror Movie Super Fan

By Farah Cheded 

Breakout star Jacob Batalon has been cast in Rooster Teeth’s horror film festival-set ‘Blood Fest.’

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The Real Lessons of The ‘Planet of the Apes’ Franchise

By Farah Cheded 

From the relationship between church and state and animal rights to civilisational clashes and the dark side of the mind, the Planet of the Apes movies of 1968, 2011, 2014 and 2017 each spotlight a complex issue of their day, illuminating it for the benefit of humanity as only sci-fi can.

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California Dreamin’: How the Golden State is Used to Subvert the American Dream

By Farah Cheded 

Over a century’s worth of dreams have been chased to the West Coast state, so it’s no wonder that California’s sunny locales have been used in skeptical, neurotic movies about the American Dream to make their brutal subversion of it all the more cutting. Here, we take a look at how this has been done.

Blade Runner

Quite an Experience to Live in Fear: An In-Depth Look at How the Anxieties that Inspired ‘Blade Runner’ Fare Today

By Farah Cheded 

As a dystopian look at our future, ‘Blade Runner’ mapped the worries of 1982 onto a then-distant 2019, extrapolating how contemporary fears might come to be realized in the future.

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A Tale of Two Flops: The Foreseen Fates of King Arthur and Conan

By Farah Cheded 

Three reasons why ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ and ‘Conan the Barbarian’ both bombed.