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....
Before Midnight: ‘Linklater manages to paint a picture of love that feels real, without sacrificing any sense of beauty or magic’. 
'Before Midnight, then, beautifully and honestly draws Linklater’s Before trilogy to a fitting conclusion. As a meditation on love and relationships it reminds us that it’s not always plain sailing, but that this doesn’t erase or dampen our past experiences.'
Josh McGrane evaluates the final instalment of Richard Linklater's beloved 'Before' trilogy.
No guts, no glory : the Bones and All premiere
"Bones and All...will undeniably spark conversation, introspection and philosophical debate"
Breakwater : Oxford’s first student feature-film in forty years
"Recently, our primary filming location burnt down"
Don’t Worry Darling – Review
'You get the impression that is was intended to be a feminist statement - but a statement of what ?'
The Economics of Pride
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The...
Ten years of the Dark Knight trilogy
It’s been 10 years since the trilogy that shaped my entire life came out.
Booksmart and the art of growing up
They find themselves together – still best friends, still ambitious and imperfect and stressed.
Love Without Words: The Quiet Storytelling of Heartstopper
Rare for the teen drama genre, the show, much like its sketched source material, is taciturn like an actual shy teenager.
Oxford Student Film Review: The Pacifist
The Pacifist was put together by a team of recently graduated University College students. Matthew Hardy (2018, English) wrote the screenplay and collaborated on direction with Jack Rennie (2017, PPL).
Local Hero: a modest masterpiece
What is the first thing that springs to mind when I ask you about the connection between a red phone box in the Scottish highlands, a crackpot oil multimillionaire from Houston, and a jaded and cynical negotiator who ends up trapped between the two colliding worlds?
The Godfather and the Thrill of Cinema
A film that rests so prominently in the public’s psyche can be difficult to watch subjectively. The Godfather is nonetheless a masterpiece in its own right.
The Hegelian Dialectic of James Gunn’s Peacemaker
What links the superhero show Peacemaker with the work of 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
The Meaning Of Motherhood: Spencer and Parallel Mothers
Life, death, and birth are all present in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. Both films address, in different ways, what the meaning of motherhood is.
The fairest of them all? Hollywood’s problem with visually represented villainy
We know that we ought to validate and cherish visible difference. Why is cinema struggling so much to catch on?
