Category: Cinema
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Deputy Editor, Sam Pegg, reviews Liam Beazley’s latest short film, Birdsong.
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Once you see it, it’s too late… Do you remember those creepy chain texts we all used to get between the ages of 12-14? They all said, “forward this text to 10 people, or a bus will run over your mum.” And although most of us were smart enough to know that these texts were…
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Imagine a scenario with me for a moment: You’re a single, unarmed woman travelling out of town for a job interview. You rent an Airbnb for the night, and when you arrive — in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night — your key code doesn’t work, the lights are on inside, and…
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If David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills was a bold swing of a kitchen knife, seeking out sociopolitical depths, then the capper to his trilogy, Halloween Ends, is one massive stab in the dark. The first in the franchise since Rob Zombie’s Halloween II to propose any remote change to its formula, Ends is its own…
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After nearly 30 years, the black flame candle is lit again, welcoming the Sanderson Sisters back onto our screens in Anne Fletcher’s Hocus Pocus 2. With the original 1993 Hocus Pocus becoming a cult classic, the bar was set incredibly high for Hocus Pocus 2. The film begins with a flashback to 1653…
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‘The biggest star in the world . . . and she’s not in Beverly Hills’, as David Cort titled his celebratory dedication in Theatre Arts Magazine (1952) to prophesise the superstardom of this dedicatee: a vivacious, versatile actor from Bombay, India, who would go to become one of the most iconic and cherished actors/superstars India…
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Musicals were a genre that thrived in the Noughties, and two writers focus on the musicals that defined the decade for them.
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Ellie Griffiths reviews the adaptation of Delia Owens novel, Where The Crawdads Sing.
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Almost saved by great performances from the likes of Ryan Gosling and Ana de Amas, ultimately the Russo Brothers newest outing isn’t quite kicker we hoped for.
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The Sea Beast (2022) is Netflix’s latest animated film, and the fourth directorial effort from Chris Williams, following his work on Bolt, Big Hero 6, and co-directing Moana. The film, co-written with Nell Benjamin, feels like a spiritual successor to Williams’ Moana due to the stunning seafaring setting, clever emphasis on exploration, and yet another…
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Viewed on Saturday 28 May as press for the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Red and black. Blurred, distorted. A donkey and a woman. Going round in circles. Birdseye view, until the letters ‘E’ and ‘O’ flash intermittently. Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO (2022) opens with its titular donkey performing in a Polish circus, pre-empting his spiralling through…
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It has been a full decade since Ethan Hawke and Scott Derrickson first collaborated on-screen for what is still considered one of the most frightening horror films of the 21st century with Sinister, alongside other modern classics like The Conjuring. Since then, Hawke has found himself in a range of projects in a range of positions – directing…
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Euan Cook offers an honest, and sometimes scathing, opinion on Stars at Noon – a must-read for all film-enthusiasts.
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Euan Cook offers a fascinating overview of Salam, a documentary made on the life-story of once-acclaimed French rapper, Diam’s, while also penetrating into certain concealed aspects of her life to document what Salam stands for.