Film
Memory and Narrative in Miguel Gomes’ Tabu
"Now approaching the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I return to Miguel Gomes’ 2012 feature Tabu."
‘The Godfather: Part II’ at fifty
The Godfather: Part II is a film about gangsters. It is also a film...
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?"
Inheriting ‘The Big Score’
Examining the appeal of the classic heist film
Daydreamers: Fantasy in the Face of Stasis
There’s a scene in one of my
favourite films, High Fidelity
(2000), in which John Cusack’s Rob plays out a number of angry reactions in his
head...
The Entangled Affair between Britain and the Catholic Church
Modern media has reinvented Catholicism as access to an intoxicating blend of nostalgia and taboo
The End of an Era: Endgame
Arguably the biggest film franchise in the world draws to a conclusion that's been over a decade in the making
The Duality of Movement in the New Taiwanese Cinema Movement
The entry of Hong Kong cinema to the
Taiwanese market in the 1980s brought with it a move to protect homegrown
directors and maintain a national...
Lady Gaga is not a receptacle for your pain
It's been almost two years since the release of Chris Moukarbel's documentary about the pop icon super-star Lady Gaga, a.k.a. Stefani Germanotta. Gaga: Five...
BBC Three’s Fleabag
“I’d just like my tits to be that much bigger — does that make me a terrible feminist?”
Such forthright, fourth wall busting, hilarious, and...
Jordan Peele’s new horror film ‘Us’
The idiom, “To be afraid of one’s own shadow,” normally forms part of an insult, a derogatory phrase denoting child-like cowardice. The characters of...
Bird Box: a victim of its own platform?
It is ironic that Netflix, the reason for the film’s rapid popularity, might also be the reason why it’s not as memorable a film as it could have been.
Emilie Rapport Munro discusses whether Netflix overdid its latest hit
Fantastic Cities: unveiling the complex realities, and fantasies, of urban life
A review of the Penny Woolcock exhibition at Modern Art Oxford
Hollywood’s lesser known gender gap
There's a lesser known gender gap in Hollywood - the difference in the shelflife of actors.
On the Basis of Sex: battling through a man’s world
Ruth Bader Ginsberg biopic shows how Felicity Jones and feminism can bring a legal drama to life
Student film: ‘notoriously difficult to penetrate’
Oxford’s student filmmakers give their takes on writing workshops, directorial debuts, and getting inside one of the arts’ most difficult industries.
Placing society’s margins under the microscope
The psychological and physical decay resulting from drug addiction is tactfully explored in Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece.
