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...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 20 to 11 David Brake December 20, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 It’s here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2016 has arrived. It’s been an extraordinary year of cinema - despite the troubling situations elsewhere. This was one of the closest years we’ve seen...
American Honey: Andrea Arnold in America Stephanie Watts October 17, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Andrea Arnold is a filmmaker who stands out for a number of reasons, but her focus on social realism as a subject and style is one that stands out more than others. Before American Honey, her first American...
Wuthering Heights: Andrea Arnold’s Anti-Costume Drama Cathy Brennan October 12, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features If you were to glance at the Amazon reviews for Andrea Arnold’s 2011 adaptation of Wuthering Heights you would find a storm of one-star reviews. Most of the ire seems to come from fans of Emily Brontë’s...
Your Week In Film: Miles, Minecraft, More Independence Day, and More Mad Max… Stephen O'Nion July 1, 2016 News 1. Class is in session for The Academy, looks rather more diverse The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finished licking envelopes and applying novelty stamps to the latest batch of invitations...
American Honey – Cannes 2016 Review Nick Evan-Cook May 15, 2016 Reviews Andrea Arnold once again confirms herself as one of - if not the - best British filmmakers working today with her sprawling odyssey of the disenfranchised, American Honey. Formally not so much a...
