Still Living Deliciously: A Love Letter to The Witch Sophie Maxwell January 27, 2020 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia This article contains spoilers... What does the word ‘witch’ mean to you? I think of cauldrons, Terry Pratchett’s novels, Sabrina and her cat Salem. Of course, there’s also the real-life Salem, the...
Let’s Get Down To Business: A Love Letter to Mulan Carmen Paddock June 22, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Apologies to all whose have continued singing “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” in their heads – or out loud – upon reading the title. The 2010s have been a relatively strong decade for Disney...
Hercules: The Original Disney Superhero Phil W. Bayles June 27, 2017 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia It’s no exaggeration to say that the superhero movie is one of the most popular (and profitable) forms of entertainment today. Leading the charge – both in quantity and quality – is Marvel Studios....
Contact: The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Ever? David Brake November 9, 2016 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Perhaps it’s a sign of how truly apocalyptic 2016 has felt that the year ends with two science-fiction thrillers, turning the lens away from the real dilemmas to focus on something a little more...
A Love Letter To… The Great Beauty Nick Evan-Cook January 26, 2016 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “I was looking for the Great Beauty… but… I didn’t find it.” So says the aging and ennui-ridden Jep, when asked why he didn’t make more of his life in the artful and exquisite The Great Beauty. On...
20 Years of Toy Story – A Love Letter Nick Evan-Cook November 18, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia What would you guess, critically speaking (insofar as these things can be quantified), is considered the best-received film trilogy of all time? Indiana Jones? Diminishing returns and the fact that the...
A Love Letter To… Back to the Future Phil W. Bayles July 3, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia “Wait a minute, Doc… Are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?!” Few films feel as simultaneously dated and ageless as Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 classic Back to the Future....
A Love Letter to… The Way Bertie Archer May 26, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia There are two ways to describe The Way. The first will be familiar to anyone who has discussed Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films with a non-believer – “they're all just taking a really long walk, I...
A Love Letter to… In the Loop Tom Bond May 6, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia As the closest UK General Election in recent history looms large and everyone talks about the economy and inequality, that defining moment of the noughties - the Iraq War - feels almost forgotten. Most...
A Love Letter to… Me and You and Everyone We Know Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan March 17, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know could perhaps best be described as the indie version of Love Actually; it too uses small, interconnecting stories to capture a moment in time. But, unlike Love...
A Love Letter to… Cloud Atlas Phil W. Bayles February 27, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Explaining what happens in Cloud Atlas is surprisingly simple. Explaining why it deserves to be loved and admired is a little harder. The story (based on a novel by David Mitchell) is in fact six separate...
A Love Letter To… Zoolander Conor Morgan February 20, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia In Zoolander, Ben Stiller’s 2001 send-up of the fashion industry, the shadowy controlling figures of the trade task leading designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell) with finding a suitable candidate to assassinate the...
A Love Letter to… Invictus Bertie Archer January 11, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia South Africa was on the brink of civil war in the early 1990s. Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was not the start of the troubles - he had been in prison for decades for fighting the institutional...
A Love Letter To… What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Lina Jurdeczka January 4, 2015 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia Less than a week into the new year we can finally sit back and rest after December’s blur of Christmas shopping and family visits. Everything is beginning to go back to normal now, and we have almost...
A Love Letter To… Stories We Tell Lina Jurdeczka November 20, 2014 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia 1 Comment One of my favourite things to do as a kid was to look at my great-grandmother’s collection of photographs. Unlike most people of her generation she didn’t keep them in neatly-sorted photo albums, but...