Bergman Island – Cannes 2021 Review Alysha Prasad July 18, 2021 Reviews Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...
Judy & Punch – LFF 2019 Review Carmen Paddock October 16, 2019 Reviews The most striking element of Mirrah Foulkes’ feminist reimaging of the quintessential, quaint British seaside entertainment – this time focusing on the humans behind the puppets – is its unevenness of...
The Final Girl: How Crimson Peak Became a Victorian Slasher Movie David Brake October 25, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off Buffy: Everyone gets horribly killed except the blonde girl in the nightie, who finally kills the monster with a machete. But it's not really dead. Jennifer: Oh, my God, is that true? Buffy: Probably. What...
Damsel – Berlinale 2018 Review Joni Blyth February 16, 2018 Reviews 1 Comment Movies don’t have to mimic their settings. Space is pretty desolate, but most films featuring the final frontier don’t waste half their running time slowly inching through the black. When it comes to...
Alice Through The Looking Glass – Review Phil W. Bayles May 28, 2016 Reviews Say what you will about Tim Burton’s much-maligned Alice in Wonderland, but at least it was recognisably an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s timeless novel. James Bobin’s sequel, Alice Through The Looking...
Why Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Is Really About Female Empowerment Ellen Dwyer May 25, 2016 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Nearly 150 years after Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in...
Crimson Peak – Review Thom Denson October 17, 2015 Reviews When you think of skin-crawlingly sinister yet emotionally hefty cinema, the first name that springs to mind is undoubtedly veteran auteur Guillermo del Toro and his stylistic masterpiece Pan's...
Music of the Movies: Joni Mitchell Rachel Brook March 11, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has recorded twenty two albums in a career spanning more than forty years and ranging across the genres of folk, jazz, and pop. She’s even been named...
Madame Bovary – LFF Review Danielle Davenport October 12, 2014 Reviews Madame Bovary is an eye-catching film which bypasses the novel’s dedication to realism instead revelling in contradictory but no less crucial romanticism. Andrij Parekj’s entrancing cinematography exudes...
Maps to the Stars – Review Rachel Brook September 28, 2014 Reviews As critics map the stars of Cronenberg’s latest, the facial and vocal contortions of Moore’s transformation into the uptalking over-sharer Havana will make her a focal point - but no one in Maps puts a...
The Double – Review Christopher Preston April 3, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment The Double sees Jesse Eisenberg thumping his two favourite masks - milksop and scumbag - together as if they were a pair of cymbals. This doppelgänger nightmare is something we should want to digest...
By The Book: Jane Eyre (2011) David Brake February 9, 2014 Analysis, By The Book, Features 1 Comment Welcome to By The Book. Every fortnight, we’ll compare a book with its visual adaptation. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling or are the authors turning in their graves through these...
Only Lovers Left Alive – LFF Review Chris Davies November 28, 2013 Reviews 1 Comment Jim Jarmusch is a wonderfully original filmmaker, but in a market saturated with vampire love stories like Twilight and True Blood, does Only Lovers Left Alive offer anything new? Sadly, it never quite...