Film
‘The Godfather: Part II’ at 50
The Godfather: Part II is a film about gangsters. It is also a film about corruption, power, betrayal, succession, revenge, religion, marriage, generational change, filial duty, sibling rivalry, the...
All Of Us Strangers Review – A Haunting Exploration of Love in all its Forms
"In All Of Us Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh leads us by the hand into a dreamlike, introspective world. "
‘Bittersweet, immersive and profoundly moving’ – Perfect Days Review
"I don’t think I’ve ever felt so ‘in the moment’ while watching a film as I did with Perfect Days"
Hollywood vs. AI – Is this the end?
"the question on everyone’s lips is: is this the end? The end of special effects teams? The end of video creation? The end of filmmaking?"
Poor Things – Review
Includes some spoilers
Poor Things takes place in a world only Yorgos Lanthimos could create....
The music of Little Women
For the characters in Greta Gerwig’s recent film adaptation of Little Women (2019), music is an essential part of their lives. Beth (the third...
Heimat: a cinematic odyssey through 20th century German life
The controversy surrounding Taika Waititi’s recently Oscar nominated satire on Nazi Germany, JoJo Rabbit, demonstrates that dramatic portrayals of Hitler and the era of the Third...
Cinema Self-Care: A Therapeutic Guide to Nora Ephron Films
Even when I am most in need of time to myself, I still crave company. Nora Ephron’s characters, from jolly, larger than life Julia...
Review: JoJo Rabbit
Based on Christine Leunens’ Caging Skies, Jojo Rabbit is a very different kind of war film to Sam Mendes’ 1917, advertised just moments before....
Review: The Rise of Skywalker
Space Operatic Dullness by Mattie Donovan, “The Critic”
When this new trilogy of Star Wars films began back in 2015, there was a charming sense of...
ROYALTY IN FILM
“Uneasy is the head that wears a crown”, wrote Shakespeare, who seemed compulsively committed to documenting the simultaneous lure and burden of monarchy more...
Review: Little Women
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as...
Review: The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen has been described – somewhat euphemistically by critics – as a ‘guns and gangsters’ film. It has been perceived as...
Review: Frozen 2
It’s not every day that Disney releases a sequel to a ‘Princess’ film. I approached Frozen 2 already resigned to the fact that this...
MUST SEE: Cossacks of the Kuban
On the 12th and 13th of January 2020 Oxford’s Ultimate Picture Palace will show the classic Soviet musical Cossacks of the Kuban (1949) as...
Review: Doctor Who’s New Year’s Day Episode, “Spyfall”
On New Year’s Day, exactly ten years after David Tennant’s beloved Tenth Doctor regenerated into Matt Smith, Doctor Who returned with the first instalment...
Review: Marriage Story
“Everything’s like everything in a relationship, don’t you find that?” This is the question Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) asks at the start of Marriage Story....
THE BEST FILMS OF THE DECADE
We, your Film Section Co-editors, have assembled a totally and completely objective top ten best films of the 2010s list. While we theoretically believe...
Review: Knives Out
British audiences know the whodunit genre well. The Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, wrote 66 murder mystery novels over the course of her prolific...
