Influence – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury July 3, 2020 Reviews Influence, the story of Lord Timothy Bell and his hugely powerful, extremely controversial PR company Bell Pottinger, often feels more like the origin story for a Bond villain than an investigative...
Sentimental Education – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury June 25, 2020 Reviews Fragments of memory and the struggles of being stuck in neutral collide in this slight but sincere first-person documentary from Spanish filmmaker Jorge Juárez. Juárez was one of many young Spaniards...
Are Nymphomaniac and Love Still Pointing the Way for Sex in Cinema? Rob Salusbury June 23, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion If films are to be believed, then it appears that most of us have basically gone celibate these days. Take a look at the BBFC’s classifications for the last few years and you’ll find a swift decline in the...
FREM – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury June 18, 2020 Reviews Two of modern society’s most pressing topics collide in Viera Čákanyová’s mediation on the power of artificial intelligence and the gradual erosion of the arctic landscape at the hands of climate...
Flint – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury June 14, 2020 Reviews In April 2014, Michigan governor Rick Snyder switched the water supply of the city of Flint from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Many residents of the city soon began to suffer from numerous health problems and...
The Transformative Legacy of Psycho Rob Salusbury June 9, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Has there ever been a film that so greatly influenced and changed the course of a single genre as Psycho? With one swish of a shower curtain and a chorus of shrieking violins, Alfred Hitchcock’s bold and...
Get In – Review Rob Salusbury May 2, 2020 Reviews By turns jaw-grindingly tedious and off-puttingly obnoxious, Get In spends so long trying to figure out what story it wants to tell that it's a wonder it even made it onto Netflix. Skittishly jumping between...
What To Watch After You Watch Normal People Rob Salusbury April 26, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion It's fair to say that few writers have captured the peaks and troughs of modern love quite like Sally Rooney. The Dublin-based writer is something of a sensation in the literary world, her writing driven by a...
Extraction – Review Rob Salusbury April 25, 2020 Reviews Continuing Netflix’s recent hot streak of below-average action thrillers, Extraction is Chris Hemsworth’s attempt to ditch the superhero tights and reinvent himself as the next Tom Cruise/Keanu Reeves by...
Pandemic Panic: The Best Horror Films to Distract You Right Now Rob Salusbury April 9, 2020 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Nostalgia, Opinion It doesn’t take a psychologist to realise that now might not be the best time for everyone's mental health. Global pandemics tend not to be the most calming of situations, and the recent state of lockdown...
Brazil – My First Time Film Review Rob Salusbury March 26, 2020 Reviews In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. Here we have Robert catching up on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Earlier this year, bizarro director and ex-Monty...
All the Bright Places – Review Rob Salusbury February 29, 2020 Reviews There is an odd, comforting sort of familiarity to coming-of-age films, with their busy high-school corridors filled with jocks and geeks, and those impossibly elaborate house parties. Though we do get a...