His Girl Friday – My First Time Film Review Sophie Wing March 27, 2020 Reviews In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. Here, Sophie catches up on 1940's His Girl Friday. His Girl Friday begins with the phrase “once upon a...
The Final Girl: How Crimson Peak Became a Victorian Slasher Movie Sophie Wing October 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off Buffy: Everyone gets horribly killed except the blonde girl in the nightie, who finally kills the monster with a machete. But it's not really dead. Jennifer: Oh, my God, is that true? Buffy: Probably. What...
Love, Simon – Review Sophie Wing April 7, 2018 Reviews Mean Girls. Clueless. 10 Things I Hate About You. The teen comedy pantheon already sets a very high bar, and not every film reaches it. Good news, then, because Love, Simon is a big-hearted, well-rounded...
“Darkness Rises, and Light to Meet It”: How The Last Jedi Found the Balance in the Force Sophie Wing December 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Warning: this article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. This is not going to go the way you think! —Luke Skywalker, The Last Jedi Ambiguity (noun). The quality of being open to more than one...
How Well Do You Know Samuel L. Jackson? Sophie Wing August 17, 2017 Quiz For many of us, it feels as though Samuel L. Jackson has never really been off the screen; he was simply born there, and we’ve been enjoying him ever since. Trawling through his entries on One Room With A...
Why Hot Fuzz is Edgar Wright’s Best Film Sophie Wing June 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Have you ever wondered why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high? Ah, the plight of the middle child; stuck between the precocious first-born and the youngster who’s allowed...
When Alfred Met Daphne: Hitchcock, Hollywood, and Du Maurier Sophie Wing June 8, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features “She did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel. Because she always said it was a study in jealousy.” Upon Rebecca’s publication in 1938, Royal Society wünderkind and critic V.S....
Best Films Never Made #38: Ridley Scott’s Nottingham Sophie Wing May 10, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features "His job was to catch outlaws, and to collect taxes. And that's a pretty shitty gig, you know? In our version, the Sheriff was basically a decent guy, a civil servant and a war hero." In January 2007, Ethan...
Contact: The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Ever? Sophie Wing November 9, 2016 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Perhaps it’s a sign of how truly apocalyptic 2016 has felt that the year ends with two science-fiction thrillers, turning the lens away from the real dilemmas to focus on something a little more...
Short of the Week – Borrowed Time Sophie Wing October 24, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/187257744 Perhaps there should be no real surprise in a Pixar animator’s penchant for twanging heartstrings with a perfectly placed pixel or two. Toys holding hands in a last...
Marie Antoinette – A Period Drama for the Mumblecore Generation Sophie Wing October 19, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance “I think she’s delightful. She looks like a little piece of cake.” Marie Antoinette never did say "Let them eat cake", but that didn’t stop Sofia Coppola from whipping up a movie dusted in...
Jane Goldman: A Kick-Ass, First Class Screenwriter Sophie Wing September 29, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight “I think that’s the joy of fantasy: the unpredictability. If the rules of the world don’t apply, what a fun playground to play in. You want to do things that are really out there, because otherwise...
Bridget Jones’s Baby – Review Sophie Wing September 19, 2016 Reviews It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bad sequel can ruin a good film. Not so Bridget Jones’s Baby. For doubters wondering if this sequel is another 2016 cash-cow, rest assured; you can put on your...
Bourne, Bush and Snowden: Turning Politics Personal in the Jason Bourne Franchise Sophie Wing July 27, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Let it never be said that you can't track a nation's attitude by its cinema. Whether by proliferation or absence, topics are either brought to attention, or trigger groundswell when they're not...
The Stanford Prison Experiment – Review Sophie Wing July 2, 2016 Reviews Any psychology student worth their salt knows the 1971 Stanford prison experiment; and after watching this film, the general populace won’t forget. Based on the (in)famous social experiment, Philip...