Get a Room! Five Movies that deserve the souped-up screening treatment Joni Blyth November 28, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, The Citizen Kane of Awful The Room began with a dream, and a bundle of leather jackets. Tommy Wiseau set out to tell the story of Johnny, a hapless man struggling to keep his future marriage afloat, but in the process became a story in...
Short of the Week – Submarine Rhys Handley November 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/233685439 A community drifting apart can feel like the end of the world. This is usually an illusion in the mind. In Mounia Akl’s award-winning short, the decomposition of the...
The King of Comedy – Martin Scorsese’s Black Sheep Rhys Handley November 24, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off When Martin Scorsese was on a streak with his muse Robert De Niro in the 1970s and 1980s, they gave us characters who would leap from the screen in a flurry of violence and rage. Paragons of toxic, unimpeded...
Scene Stealers: Andrea Riseborough in The Death of Stalin Rachel Brook November 23, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Andrea Riseborough is having a bit of a moment. Of course she’s not exactly a newcomer to success or critical acclaim. Still, the almost simultaneous releases of The Death of Stalin and Battle of the Sexes...
Steve Carell: Serious Actor James Andrews November 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Steve Carell has come a long way from loving lamp in 2004’s Anchorman. The Massachusetts native was once best known as loveable idiot weatherman Brick Tamland, The Office’s cringey boss Michael Scott and,...
How Good Time Gives Us A Taste Of The Real New York Stephanie Watts November 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Josh and Benny Safdie's latest and largest production, Good Time, is a dive head first into the gritty underbelly of New York, following a criminal on one night as he attempts to scrape together the money to...
Holy Misogyny, Batman! Comic Book Movies Are Still Getting It Wrong Katy Moon November 21, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion 1 Comment Forget Thanos. Disregard Lex Luthor. The most dastardly cinematic villain of all is undoubtedly the Male Gaze. Cast your mind back to any blockbuster and chances are, he’s there. The woman introduced...
Short of the Week – How To Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps Kambole Campbell November 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/149123295 Winkingly cribbing its title from those thinly veiled click-bait ads you normally make fun of, How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps is a pretty standard tale. Only, it's done...
Scene Stealers: Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver Patrick Nabarro November 18, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Yesterday marked Martin Scorsese’s 75th birthday, and to mark the great man reaching three-quarters of a century, what better way to celebrate his enduring contribution to cinema than by recalling one of the...
Parenting & Privilege: The Florida Project and Call Me By Your Name Rhys Handley November 16, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Parenting - good or bad, present or not - permeates all lives. Children’s worlds are built on the foundations of the early teachings of mothers, fathers, and carers. Even when its effects move to the...
Justice League Is Here, But Why Is DC Still Lagging Behind? Carmen Paddock November 15, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion The long-lived superhero zeitgeist is one of the twenty-first century’s defining cinematic movements. Marvel’s announcement of a five-year ‘Phase Three’ plan and Warner Bros’s announcement of a...
From Heart Throb to Indie Darling: The Evolution of Robert Pattinson Naomi Soanes November 14, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight It’s been a long time now since Robert Pattinson was able to enjoy complete anonymity. From the moment Pattinson landed the much-coveted role of Edward Cullen in the Twilight series, he has been unable to...
Short of the Week – Learn: 1st World Problems Ellen Dwyer November 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/238954750 Learn:1st World Problems is a satire exploring the narcissistic world of the creative industries, in this case fashion, uncovering not only the duplicitous traits needed to...
Thor: Ragnarok’s Most Disappointing Part? Cate Blanchett As The Goddess of Death Tom Bond November 8, 2017 Analysis, Features, Opinion Thor: Ragnarok overcomes a lot of Marvel’s traditional problems – predictable three-act structure, bland quips and visuals – and turns its tics into triumphs – for example, crafting the inevitable and...
Top 10 Performances by First Time Actors Jack Blackwell November 7, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Finding the right actors for a film is often a gruelling process, even when using the most conventional channels. To abandon these mainstream techniques in the name of authenticity can sometimes seem like...