Author: Ellie Gwynne


  • 100 Discs of Christmas #48 – Spanking the Monkey (1994)

    Spanking the Monkey is a hugely significant movie in that it deals with a subject matter still so taboo that most directors won’t go near it. David O Russell however is no such director. Boldly going where few dare to go, he gives us his own Oedipus in the form of Ray (Jeremy Davies), a […]

  • 100 Discs of Christmas #45 – Cold Weather (2010)

    A little known independent film which first appeared back in 2010, Cold Weather is the third feature by American writer/director Aaron Katz, who made his name with seminal ‘mumblecore’ movies Dance Party USA and Quiet City. Whilst those films were content to simply represent ordinary people doing extremely ordinary things in what appeared to be […]

  • 100 Discs of Christmas #43 – Before Sunrise (1995)

    Featuring perhaps one of the greatest movie romances of all time, Richard Linklater’s 1995 film Before Sunrise sees Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Celine, two people who forge a life-altering bond over the course of one night in Vienna. The first in a three part film series which will conclude with the […]