Rushmore and How the Teen Movie Grew Up Rhys Handley October 8, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Rushmore is 20 years old. Even with a two-decade legacy that reaches into cinema’s hallowed history to map out its future, Wes Anderson’s singular screwball tale of love, betrayal and extracurricular...
John Cho – First Place Doesn’t Count For Much in Hollywood Joni Blyth October 4, 2018 Spotlight John Cho is a pioneer. His filmography is dominated by groundbreaking roles: first Asian American romantic lead in US television; first openly gay character in a sci-fi blockbuster; first person to use the...
Lost in Translation and the Lonely City Tom McAdam October 4, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Before its release back in 2003, no one quite knew what to expect from Lost in Translation, an indie romantic comedy set in Japan, starring Bill Murray and a then largely unknown 17-year-old Scarlett...
Still Creating Musical Fusion: School of Rock Turns 15 Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan October 3, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia When it came out in 2003, School of Rock was deemed a "sleeper hit". Though it was obviously intriguing enough to investors, it does sound pretty unremarkable: washed-up musician tries to teach preppy kids how...
Second Chance: Johnny English James Andrews October 2, 2018 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance As Rowan Atkinson returns this week for a third Johnny English film that no-one really asked for, it seems inevitable that this unlikely franchise (based around a character created for a '90s Barclaycard ad...
50 Years of Night of the Living Dead Katy Moon October 1, 2018 Analysis, Close-Up, Features You’re trapped in a secluded farmhouse, surrounded by a growing horde of the ravenous undead. Do you hole up in the secure but inescapable cellar? Or do you stay above ground and try to fortify the...
High School: Dazed and Confused at 25 Thom Denson September 24, 2018 Features, Nostalgia It’s what we love about these films, man. We get older and they just stay the same age. With 1993’s Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater delivered a shot of pure nostalgia in the arm of cinema goers,...
A Beginner’s Guide to… Cate Blanchett Carmen Paddock September 20, 2018 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features 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...
Our Favourite Monstrous Movie Mothers Katy Moon September 19, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the release of Jennifer Garner's vigilante action flick Peppermint, we're reminded that mothers aren't always the soft and nurturing type. In the horror genre especially, some of the best and most violent...
Scene Stealers: Jack Black in High Fidelity Louise Burrell September 18, 2018 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers It’s fair to say that Jack Black is a bit of a ‘marmite’ actor. You’ll either love his unique brand of brashness and lack of subtlety, or it’ll have you avoiding a film at all costs. This persona has...
Oscar Isaac: A Most Vibrant Five Years James Andrews September 13, 2018 Analysis, Features, Spotlight "You've come a very long way in a very short time." So says another character to Oscar Isaac's Abel Morales in A Most Violent Year. The same could well be said about the actor himself. As recently as 2012 you...
Top 10 Stoner Comedies Naomi Soanes September 12, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since the release of Pineapple Express back in 2008. But there it is – and the world’s perception and acceptance of marijuana has changed a massive amount...
At The Movies With Clarence And Alabama: True Romance Turns 25 Rory Steabler September 10, 2018 Close-Up, Features, Nostalgia True Romance turns 25 today. A quarter-century after that love letter to sex, violence, and Elvis Presley hit screens (and bombed), we have to ask ourselves: we’re all pretty much over Quentin Tarantino,...
Scene Stealers: Ann Dowd in Garden State James Andrews September 5, 2018 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers If you've only got to know Ann Dowd through her recent roles in Hereditary and TV's The Handmaid's Tale (like a certain writer, ahem), you'd be forgiven for wanting to steer well clear of her if you ever met...
Short of the Month: Long Way Back Home Carmen Paddock September 3, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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)...