Industry – LFF 2020 Review Anahit Behrooz October 12, 2020 Reviews It is hard to shake a sense of disgust while watching Industry, HBO’s series about young investment bankers vying for a permanent position at a top London firm. One of the few female candidates is sent...
Adam Driver: From Soldier to Sith Lord Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan November 24, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Adam Driver is an actor we just keep seeing more of. Ever since his breakout role in Lena Dunham’s Girls, Driver has quietly been gracing our screens in many different roles, culminating in his blockbuster...
Marie Antoinette – A Period Drama for the Mumblecore Generation David Brake 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...
My Art – Venice 2016 Review Cathy Brennan September 7, 2016 Reviews Acting, starring and written by Laurie Simmons, My Art feels like a rich person’s vanity project. Simmons plays a version of herself called Ellie; an artist who spends the summer at her friends house...
Judd Apatow – The King of Comedy Tom Bond September 1, 2015 Analysis, Features, Spotlight If you had to define the comedy of the last 15 years with one name, that name would be Judd Apatow. A sure sign of his dominance is in Indiewire’s recent list of the 25 Best Comedies of the 21st Century So...
What Are You Looking At: A New Age of Aspect Ratios? Tom Bond March 25, 2015 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 1 Comment What are you looking at? A laptop, a tablet, a smartphone? Whatever you’re reading these words on, it’s probably a rectangle, framing the text and the images and this article in a standard space. This...
Desiree Akhavan Talks Appropriate Behaviour, Girls and Directing Yourself Cameron Ward March 8, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...
Rewinding Time: The Rise of the Small Screen Olivia Luder September 14, 2014 Analysis, Features, Opinion Oh 21st Century – we all had such high hopes. Diablo Cody did great work for the quirky gal in all of us, winning an Oscar for Juno in 2007, Julie Delpy has been a fierce whirlwind of creativity since...