The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet – Review Rafaela Sales Ross May 21, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Neighbours gather in front of Sebastian’s (Daniel Katz) door, their open umbrellas awkwardly competing...
Malcolm & Marie – Review George Howarth February 6, 2021 Reviews Covid-conscious filmmaking is a tricky business. When production of Euphoria's second season was halted due to the pandemic, creator Sam Levinson and star Zendaya cooked up a more viable creative outlet: a...
Time – LFF 2020 Review Sophie Maxwell October 11, 2020 Reviews In Garrett Bradley’s documentary Time, Sibil "Fox" Richardson is working to have her husband Robert released from prison. She believes his sentence—60 years for armed bank robbery—is oppressively and...
How Fritz Lang Broke Hollywood Joseph Bullock October 5, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Fritz Lang created some of the most indelible images in cinema. Most come from his German films: the rotund spacecraft from Woman in the Moon (1929), Peter Lorre’s panicking child-killer branded with a...
Why are Filmmakers Falling for Monochrome? Rob Salusbury July 22, 2020 Analysis, Features, Opinion It may feel like a lifetime ago now but it was only back in February when Jane Fonda opened that golden envelope and sent the film world into rapture. The cinematic sensation of 2019, Parasite became the...
Images of Insanity: How Polanski Disrupts Gender in Cul-De-Sac Tom Bond March 1, 2017 Analysis, Close-Up, Features On an island, anything can happen. Isolated geographically, they form spaces separate from the rest of society where new rules apply and existing norms can be challenged and disrupted. It’s been this way...
50 Years On, Is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! A Feminist Masterpiece? Tom Bond August 4, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion At first glance, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a sexist film. Made by notorious sexploitation director Russ Meyer, the three heroines are go-go dancers who spend the entirety of the film in dangerously...
CEL Mates: Fear(s) of the Dark Conor Morgan April 28, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent CEL Mates is a new feature about alternative animated films you may not have seen, but probably should; all outside of the Disney/Pixar, Dreamworks and Studio Ghibli fare that dominate the world of animation....