Film

Aug 17, 20214 min read

‘Imagine’: An Insight into Kazuo Ishiguro’s life

By Lara Bryant I think we can all agree that most people’s T.B.R lists have skyrocketed in length since the pandemic began, and with...

May 19, 20216 min read

‘Glowing up’ on screen: Are coming-of-age makeover scenes always problematic?

By Maria Atter Grease, Clueless, Mean Girls, The Princess Diaries, The Breakfast Club. What do all these films have in common, besides...

Apr 18, 20213 min read

Animating the theatre and dramatising ma: will Studio Ghibli lose its touch?

Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning film Spirited Away will take the stage in Tokyo in 2022. Although this production has full artistic support...

Apr 4, 20215 min read

Trilogies: turning to cinema for escapism and sentimentality

By Phoebe Baltazar The monotonous time we find ourselves in demands near-hypnotic escapism, alongside soothing and syrupy nostalgia. The...

Mar 11, 20215 min read

Joe Blandamer: Remoulding the industry

By Megan Hill Joe’s childhood was spent obsessing over the latest Aardman animation creations, the brains behind family classics Wallace...

Feb 20, 20215 min read

Redefining Women’s role in Cinema With Angie Chen

“I remember there was also a sort of jinx in Hong Kong when I started. Women in the studio could not sit on the camera equipment or cases...

Jan 30, 20214 min read

The astonishing success of Demon Slayer

The coronavirus pandemic may have caused many industries to press pause on operations, but the anime industry continued to make huge...

Dec 29, 20205 min read

Morvern Callar and the refusal of sentimentality

By Lydia Rostant Lynne Ramsay challenges cinema’s obsession with sentimentality in her ecstatic portrayal of loss and desire. In Lynne...

Dec 9, 20206 min read

Women in Film: In conversation with Ella Greenwood

The film industry is astonishingly male-dominated. Male crew, directors, executives – all crafting male-centric stories. Not only has...

Nov 18, 20203 min read

Weathering With You: Blending romance and environmentalism

One of 2019’s trending anime films, Weathering With You (from the creators of Your Name) was unique in its depiction of environmentalism...

Oct 31, 20204 min read

Jackie Robinson and the importance of ‘42’

By James Forth With the Black Lives Matter movement being especially prevalent this year, and in light of the recent passing of Chadwick...

Oct 29, 20204 min read

Miss Juneteenth: Building upon the legacy of Black storytellers

In Channing Godfrey Peoples’ debut film Miss Juneteenth (2020) she builds upon the legacies of Black storytellers, capturing how...

Oct 26, 20205 min read

Black Is King | Why we failed Beyoncé

By Isabella Wimmer In a world where social inequalities and asymmetrical power structures come to the forefront of our awareness as a...

Sep 22, 20204 min read

The Ammonite backlash: Queer narratives in film finally given centre stage

A trailer was recently released for the film Ammonite, a biopic of famed palaeontologist Mary Anning, starring Kate Winslet as the lead...

Sep 19, 20203 min read

Tenet review: Can Nolan save cinema?

The weight of the film industry sits heavy on Christopher Nolan’s shoulders. Tenet, originally scheduled for a lucratively-timed July...

Jul 11, 20203 min read

Reality under construction | Homemade review

By Suzie Beckley ‘Homemade’ is a volume of 17 short films made in quarantine by known and lesser-known directors, writers, actors and...