Film Club is where the lights go down.
Where the seat is still warm, popcorn dust on your fingers, and something on screen just won’t let you go.
We talk about films the way they feel: the scene that knocks the air out of you, the line you quote in the kitchen, the soundtrack that tastes like winter.
Welcome in — the movie’s already started.
2024 & 2025
by Jon M. Chu
What Wicked proposes is less a retelling than a quiet destabilisation of The Wizard of Oz. By folding its narrative back into the visual and moral grammar of the original film, the duology exposes how easily innocence is staged and authority naturalised. Familiar symbols—the Emerald City, the Wizard, the promise of belonging—reappear stripped of certainty, reframed as instruments of persuasion rather than wonder. In this mirrored Oz, heroism is a matter of perspective and evil a narrative convenience. Wicked doesn’t rewrite the classic so much as read it against itself, asking what had to be obscured for the fairy tale to endure.
