Tag: Netflix

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: The Power of the Dog – One of the Year’s Best

    The closing shot of The Searchers is the most famous and influential shot in the Western genre, as John Wayne is framed to perpetual loneliness by the rectangle of a door frame. The Power of the Dog updates the shot very early on into a triptych one: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Phil Burbank prowls between the frame […]

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: The Harder They Fall

    One of the great lies of Hollywood is that the Old West was white. The Western genre dates to the inception of filmmaking and its gilded era in the 1950s and 1960s saw productions in that genre churned out at such a rate as to make Marvel blush. Of course, seemingly every single one of […]

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    Sam Pegg

    Violent Depictions in TV

    Sam Pegg explores the different ways television shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and 13 Reasons Why present violence on screen.

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    Lucy Maggs

    Why “I Am Not Okay With This” Deserves More

    Lucy Maggs puts forward the sheer potential I Am Not Okay With This has for another series following its untimely conclusion.

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    Katie Evans

    Comedians To Check Out This Summer

    With summer coming, our writers recommend some comedians to check out on a rainy day.

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    Reece Beckett

    In Defence Of: Capone

    Josh Trank has very quickly made a name for himself within Hollywood and amongst film fans as… certainly a difficult director to predict. He flew into mainstream success with Chronicle (2012), a faux-found-footage film that made it appear as though three American teenagers had stumbled across a discovery that in turn gave them superpowers. It […]

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    Sam Pegg

    Review: Thunder Force – Surprisingly Funny But Predictable

    Sam Pegg sums up the latest outing from Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy in this Netflix superhero comedy.

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    Reece Beckett

    Actor in Focus: Adam Sandler

    Adam Sandler is arguably one of the most divisive actors in Hollywood but why? Reece Beckett chronicles his career.

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    Mitul Mistry

    Review: Run- Faultless Casting Saves The Day In Clichéd Thriller

    Mitul Mistry reviews the sleeper hit from Aneesh Chaganty.

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    Reece Beckett

    Will Streaming Kill Entertainment?

    Reece Beckett reflects on streaming services and cinemas, reflecting on the impact they have on eachother.

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    Louise Chase

    Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor (Season 1)

    Louise Chase tells us why we should have watched Bly Manor.

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    Sam Pegg

    Weekly Roundup (15/03/21-21/03/21) – Southampton, Sony, and Disney+

    News Editor, Sam Pegg, rounds up this week in news!

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell – An Insight On The Influential Rapper Minus The Music

    Reese Beckett checks out Emmet Malloy’s new documentary about the late New York rapper.

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: News of the World – Tom Hanks’s Sprawling Western is Good News

    Jacob Hando offers his verdict on Paul Greengrass’s Western starring Tom Hanks