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…
Colette, a modern soul in an old-fashioned world
The married life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is the story of a modern soul in an old fashioned world. She was…
Keshavarz’s Circumstance (2011) is one of disruption and defiance
On the surface, Circumstance (2011) depicts the emotive, tumultuous journey of Atafeh and her orphaned best friend Shireen. They fall…
Beauty’s Background
Toni Bestard’s short film Background, broadcasted on Arte this month, radiates a poetic understanding of cinema. It is a meta-narrative,…
What’s on in November? We’ve got your back!
What’s on in November? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! The run-up to Christmas is always an awkward one. But…
Judy – Zellweger soars over the rainbow ★★★
“I just want what everyone else wants,” an ageing Judy Garland croaks to a BBC interviewer in the winter of…
Sleep with, not on, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Starring two of the finest (and finest-looking) actors of their generation, this underrated gem is as much a study of…
2019 Film and TV Preview
The silver screen ‘The world has enough superheroes’ claimed last year’s Venom, but clearly no one listened. Prepare for the…
2018 in Film: What You Missed and What Is Yet To Come
Whilst you were splashing your student loans on Avengers: Infinity War and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, some good cinema went under your radar.…
