Emma: It’s what Austen would have wanted ★★★★
2020 is the year ‘unlikeable’ women get their due and I am loving it – first Amy March, and now…
Waiting for Anya: Not worth the wait ★★
Tackling the Holocaust warrants bravery and rendering such a tragedy into fiction for young audiences is a noble intention. Upon…
Bombshell – fox in the #MeToo hen house
There’s an irony of a proto-MeToo movement taking place in the halls of the fiercely conservative Fox News’ offices in…
Talk To Her (2003) and the media’s dangerous sexualisation of victims
Almodóvar’s film Hablé con Ella (Talk to Her, 2003) aestheticizes the female body, masking sexual violence in ways that are…
Call Me When You Get This: In conversation with Sebastian Mullen
Call Me When You Get This premiered on the 31st of January 2020. Second-year IR student Sebastian Mullen wrote, starred…
Just Mercy – redemption, justice, and more besides ★★★
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx star in this refined, fresh, yet emotionally bruising interpretation of the relationship between lawyer…
What’s coming up: February 2020 in film, in print, on TV, and on stage
Films Perhaps the most anticipated film in February is Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad spin-off, which says a lot…
The Beaver Reviews: Little Women
When one review just won’t do – Molly Horner, Raphaelle Camarcat, and Amber Iglesia give their opinions on Greta Gerwig’s latest…
January 2020 – Starting the year with a bang!
The best of January films, tv shows, theatre productions, albums, and books to suit all tastes FILM To start the…
Worst film of the decade: The Emoji Movie – 👎💩
Those two emojis perfectly encapsulate my feelings towards this film. It’s an epic adventure that follows a smartphone trying to…
