Tag: Film


  • Nostalgic News: Back To The Future was released 40 years ago!

    Joanna Magill has us reminiscing on Robert Zemeckis’ classic start to his excellent trilogy.

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    Maelström: An Unsettling Tale of Grief and Ghosts

    An unsettling tale of grief and ghosts!

  • My Oxford Year (2025): A heart wrenching rom com.

    Film Editor Daisy Hodgson reviews Netflix’s ‘My Oxford year’, a heart wrenching rom-com.

  • The Enduring Simplicity of ’80s Teen Movies

    “I want my life to be like an ’80s movie… But no, John Hughes did not direct my life.” Emma Stone utters these words in the 2010 teen comedy Easy A, decades after the heyday of John Hughes had passed. Teen movies have remained a pinnacle of film culture, and to be honest, there have […]

  • Nostalgic News: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released 20 years ago!

    Joanna celebrates 20 years of Tim burton’s retelling of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

  • My Favourite Horror film: Kill List

    Liam argues why Kill List is the best Horror Movie

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    ‘Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy’ (2025): An imperfectly perfect film.

    I walked into the cinema with the biggest hope in my heart that this movie wouldn’t let me down and it didn’t. It delivered, if not more than delivered on my expectations for it.  For me, the Bridget Jones movies are a comfort movie, it feels like being wrapped in a big warm hug, but […]

  • ‘We Live in Time’ (2025) : live, laughed, lost my ability to hold back tears. 

    This film is by far one of the most emotional films I have ever watched. Before I went to the cinema, I’d seen a few TikTok’s on this film and I was expecting to cry whilst watching it because of this.  I am not an emotional person typically, but boy, did this film affect me. […]

  • Behind the Emerald Curtain: An Interview with Wicked’s Karis and Hattie

    Editor in Chief Rosie Spurrier sits down with two young actresses that featured in hit musical Wicked.

  • Wicked: A Spellbinding Cinematic Triumph

    A successful adaptation of a musical into a film is no mean feat. In my opinion, it is quite the risk to attempt to capture the magic that a theatre show exudes and make it into a blockbuster without losing the energy of the performances or using really bad CGI (the 2019 Cats film speaks […]

  • The Good, The Bad, and the Review of Netflix’s ‘Uglies’ (2024)

    Based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 young adult novel, Netflix’s adaptation of Uglies is relatively simple. In a dystopian future three hundred years from now, the government funds everything, including the mandated extreme cosmetic surgery everyone receives at the age of 16, transforming them from an ‘Ugly’ into a ‘Pretty’.  Both the book and the film […]

  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance was released 18 years ago!

    Callum celebrates 18 years of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

  • V for Vendetta was released 18 years ago!

    Sam looks back on V for Vendetta, 18 years after its release.

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    Hidden Gems: Nowhere Boy

    Biopics have become a key genre of mainstream cinema in recent years, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman and The Dirt. Audiences have come to love tales of those who have achieved legendary status through their work, those who have dealt with hardships of the worst nightmares yet risen back, and finally those who will never […]