Category: Features

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    Harry Hipperson

    Review: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

    Despite critical and commercial success, Martin McDonagh remains a somewhat underrated figure within the film industry. I saw this because I don’t see the same buzz around one of his new films as I do for one by the likes of Edgar Wright or even Guy Ritchie. However, with one of the best films of […]

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    Ashish Dwivedi

    Ashish’s FaceoftheMonth: Baburao Patel

    Film journalism has always been an integral concomitant within film paraphernalia. It has existed since the socio-technological upheaval caused by the rise of motion pictures and allowed cinephiles to refine their understandings of their favourite cinemas — what goes behind the scenes, directorial and cinematographic art, or just another list of fresh, upcoming productions — […]

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    Ashish Dwivedi

    Ashish’s FaceoftheMonth: Mubarak Begum

    Since the release of India’s first talkie, Alam Ara (1931), music has perpetually sustained its position as an outstanding candidate for entertainment and refined aesthetics. It has witnessed several revolutions within Indian Cinema and – as a dynamic element of the Indian film language – has been subject to countless transformations, with the first-ever occurrence […]

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    Laura Carpenter

    Laura’s FaceOfTheMonth: Ana de Armas

    Anybody witnessing Ana de Armas’ talent for the first time in the upcoming chronicle-film, Blonde, in which she is set to star as Norma Jeane/Marilyn Monroe, is late to the party – she’s already one of Hollywood’s most successful actors. Miss de Armas has been the lead actress in several American box-office hits, such as […]

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    Lottie James

    Collab: Our Favourite Noughties Films

    Packed fill with family-fun adventures, the Noughties boomed in films aimed at all ages, along with a couple for older adults as well.

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    Daisy Gazzard

    Golden Age of Musicals

    From Sweeney Todd to Mamma Mia, Noughties’ musicals just always seem to hit differently.

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    Sam Pegg

    DreamWorks VS Pixar: Which Studio ‘Won’ the Noughties?

    After Disney’s Renaissance period fizzled out by the end of the 1990s, the stage was set for two newer animation studios to wage war at the cinema: Pixar and DreamWorks. One focused on emotionally galvanising films for children and adults alike, whilst the other pioneered cracking soundtracks, screenplays infused with pop-culture gags and a talking […]

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    Philip Hoare

    How 2008 Set the Standard for Superhero Cinema

    14 years after its release, Iron Man would later define the MCU and set the standard for superhero cinema to come.

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    Ashish Dwivedi

    Ashish’s FaceoftheMonth: Bharat Bhushan

    Stories of great kings, warriors, demigods, and the paranormal heavily influenced the beginnings of Indian Cinema, soon becoming one of its endemic and prevalent thematic trope/subject. The release of Raja Harishchandra (1913) paved the way for the coalescence of similar narratives that soon were categorised as mythologicals and historicals, simultaneously inspiring an upsurge of individuals […]

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    Laura Carpenter

    The Sea Beast is more than a How to Train Your Dragon-styled pirate film

    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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    Ashish Dwivedi

    Global via the Local: 5 Films from Early Popular Indian Cinema

    Indian cinema is humongous. With more than 20 regional industries, it has transformed its global reputation as an enthralling entertainment industry both within and off the shores of India. Amid these variations within cinemas, three particular forms of cinema have stood apart in terms of gross film production and thematic experimentation: the film-industries of Bombay, […]

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    Daisy Gazzard

    In Criticism of: Rom-Coms

    The most divisive film genre ever? Daisy Gazzard isn’t a fan!

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    Lucy Maggs

    La La Land’s Ending- Yay or Nay?

    Lucy Maggs discusses La La Land’s ‘Marmite’ ending.

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    Oliver Picken

    On Edge: Anticipating Wicked and the Future of Stage Musicals On Screen

    Oliver Picken shares his hopes and concerns for the upcoming film adaptation of Wicked.