Your Week In Film: LEGO, Tron, Pooh, King Kong Stephen O'Nion March 3, 2017 News 1. The Oscars happened Right, that was easy. Next? 2. Jay Z has his head In the Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda may not have added the O to his EG_T on the weekend, but the creative polymath did get something...
Top 20 Films of 2016: 3. Spotlight Bertie Archer December 29, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I...
Memory and Trauma in Memento, Trance and Remainder Tom Bond June 28, 2016 Analysis, Close-Up, Features Memory is a difficult thing for cinema to dissect. It’s the most opaque, internal process we experience as humans, and therefore wholly unsuited to a medium as visual as film. Countless books that rely on...
Spotlight: Tom McCarthy Calum Baker February 2, 2016 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Tom McCarthy is known for many things: he’s a critically well-liked writer-director whose most recent film, Spotlight, is garnering accolades around the world. He’s a very recognisable “That guy!”...
Spotlight – Review Nick Evan-Cook January 30, 2016 Reviews Absorbing and understated, Spotlight handles its complex subject matter with class, restraint and, vitally, balance. A cast on their A-game add depth and humanity to their intriguing characters - who are...