Category: Film

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    Kay Miller

    In Criticism Of: Shadow in the Cloud

    Kay Miller deconstructs the incoherent Shadow in the Cloud.

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: The Harder They Come

    An ignored 1972 film gets some love from Reece Beckett.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood, 2021)

    Clint Eastwood, aged 91, returns with another director-star project.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Spencer – Bleak and Beautifully Surreal

    I have never had any interest in the Royal family. The elements of this film that drew me in were simply the talents of leading actress Kristen Stewart and score composer Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead fame), so I was pleasantly surprised when Spencer, the new film from Jackie director Pablo Larrain, was formally and ideologically more in sync […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: IWOW – I Walk On Water (2020)

    Admittedly, it may be a little too soon to call a film only released last year a hidden gem as it hasn’t had long to find its audience. But given the slow response time to Khalik Allah’s work overall, now picking up thanks to his work on recent music videos for Solange and Nas, it […]

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    Irene Ma

    Nostalgic News: Space Jam (1996) was released 25 years ago

    25 years on, Irene Ma reminisces over one of the “most convincing crossovers of animated characters with the real world” ever.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: The Card Counter

    Paul Schrader at his best? Reece Beckett thinks so.

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    Callum Nelmes

    Review: The French Dispatch – An Absolute Winning Feast

    Participating in the discourse surrounding Wes Anderson and his work is at once a tempting delight and an intricate challenge. Unmistakably, he has cultivated some of the most recognisably precise and glossy aesthetics in the contemporary filmscape. For better or worse, Anderson is an unrelenting force of cognizant eccentricity; slyly winking at viewers with sumptuous […]

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    Daniela Gonzalez

    Review Halloween Kills – Effectively Gory Yet Unsurprising

      **spoilers below!** The iconic slasher film franchise is back after the success of Halloween (2018). We see Laurie Strode (Jaime Lee Curtis), Karen (Judy Greer), and Allyson (Andi Matichak) exactly where we left them three years ago: hurt and rushing to the hospital. As for Michael (James Jude Courtney), he miraculously survives the fire […]

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    Sam Pegg

    Review: Shepherd – Visually Stunning Mediocracy

    If borrowing is a form of flattery, then Shepherd certainly sets out to flatter its inspirations. However, spending too little time crafting its own tale to add anything meaningful to the genre heavily bogs it down in the process. What tries to be beautifully haunting and filled with a gripping narrative only seems to flounder in […]

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: Dune

    After years of telling people “Dune’s going to be great” and hearing back “why, what’s happening in June?”, the hotly anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary 1965 sci-fi novel has finally landed. Dune, as in the sand banks and definitely not the sixth month of the year, is a titanic, elemental slab of next-level filmmaking […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Venom: Let There Be Carnage – A Mixed Bag

    Venom 2 is out- but is it Hardy any good?

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    Lucy Maggs

    Is Nepotism a Problem in Hollywood?

    Lucy Maggs weighs in on Hollywood’s problem with familial connections when it comes to employment.

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    Reece Beckett

    Post-Mortem: The Suicide Squad (2021)

    Reece Beckett delves into the disappointing failure of The Suicide Squad.