Author Carmen Paddock

Roughly a third of the way through Colette, currently in UK cinemas, Keira Knightley’s titular author muses that ‘the hand that holds the pen writes history.’ This line – featured prominently in the...

Stan & Ollie – a lovingly constructed biopic of an ageing Laurel and Hardy – hits cinemas this week. To celebrate, One Room with a View’s Naomi, Louise, and Tom have come together to argue the merits...

Lin-Manuel Miranda might be the closest thing the arts industry has to a Renaissance man. While still without an Oscar, the Hamilton writer/composer/singer/actor has the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony (and MacArthur...

A Christmas zombie musical comedy should not work. However, John McPhail’s second feature sells the hell out of this improbable combination. Anna and the Apocalypse’s scrappy lack of polish and the gusto...

With Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse out tomorrow, audiences will be treated to a new version of a beloved, oft-portrayed superhero. Or more accurately, new versions – Miles Morales might be at the heart...

This week sees the release of Anna and the Apocalypse, a Christmas zombie musical comedy set in small town Scotland. There is a lot to unpack in that description. Today, let’s celebrate the fact that the...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x569sd9 Dr Seuss’ beloved Christmas tale may not be as essential to UK holiday programming as The Snowman, but its two versions this millennium – the second, starring...

Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale – out this week – looks like a hell of a ride, especially with the stellar ensemble cast. Chris Hemsworth's role might be one of the smaller ones, but the...

Back on screens this week with the release of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, iconic Australian actress Cate Blanchett is adding a children’s fantasy film to her impressive list of achievements. She is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...

The legendary American composer, conductor, and music educator Leonard Bernstein would have been 100 on 25th August 2018. His career was marked by its mercurial beginning – at the age of 25, he took on a...

Over the course of a deliberately convoluted timeframe, shady characters cross paths and double-cross one another in a neo-noir cityscape (think Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet meets a dystopian Alice in...

Apologies to all whose have continued singing “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” in their heads – or out loud – upon reading the title. The 2010s have been a relatively strong decade for Disney...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/270244268 New York is one of the planet’s most recognisable places – largely thanks to the infinite films, television shows, and plays set across its five...

Patton Oswalt once made a joke about the creators of some of his favourite films: I love movies.  And any movie that you love, chances are it was directed by a man, edited by a woman, which means a woman...