Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music – IFFR 2022 Review Carmen Paddock February 3, 2022 Reviews With Nashville’s iconic music industry still largely devoid of LGBTQ+ household names, it is easy to spend a lifetime listening to country western music without realising gay women are behind many words and...
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – Review Weiting Liu May 30, 2021 Reviews “The world’s a little blurry. Or maybe it’s my eyes.” This line from Billie Eilish’s record-breaking debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? turns into the apt title of director R.J....
The Go-Go’s – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Nick Davie June 21, 2020 Reviews From the punk scene in L.A. to Broadway musical, this documentary is a deserved and welcomed portrait chronicling seminal all-female band The Go-Go’s rise, fall, and eventual reunion. America’s first, and...
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A – Berlinale 2018 Review Stephanie Watts February 25, 2018 Reviews Over a decade in the making, Matangi/Maya/M.I.A has arrived as an unexpectedly personal look at the life of controversial Sri-Lankan pop star M.I.A. Rather than focusing wholly on her technical method of...
Lost in France – Review Nick Evan-Cook February 22, 2017 Reviews Peculiar choice of title aside (at no point does anyone get lost in France, either physically or spiritually), Lost in France is an unusual and not particularly audience-inclusive film, not least because it's...
Top 20 Films of 2015: 10. Amy Sian Brett December 23, 2015 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Back in the mid noughties, Amy Winehouse was more than just a name. Through a meteoric rise to fame, followed by a descent into drugs, she became the punchline to your jokes. A shorthand description of someone...