Film
Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz
Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was extremely prolific and directed films across every decade of Turkish cinema starting in the 1950s....
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"
The Prom: rainbow lighting, James Corden & the stage-to-screen adaptation
After a year in which curtains have hardly left stage floors, The Prom gives theatre fans a much needed dose of gliz, glamour and cheese. Katie Kirkpatrick reviews.
La vita davanti a sé: Sex, death and Sophia Loren
Long time, no see! Sophia Loren, Italian star of ‘60s classics such as 1963's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and 1964's Marriage Italian Style, commands...
The HAPPIEST SEASON to be queer
With Christmas comes family and with family comes movies. It’s that time to cuddle up cosy on the sofa and watch yet another Reese...
Making Queer Cinema history: Victim (1961)
"‘Victim’ illuminates an important moment in the history of LGBTQ+ rights, primarily in normalising the existence of homosexuality and encouraging empathy."
Eagerly Anticipating: Sex Education Series 3
"I am desperately hoping Sex Education returns as planned in January – we don’t need any more bad news this year."
Between a rook and a hard place: Female ambition in The Queen’s Gambit
The Queen’s Gambit is refreshing because it offers a model of masculinity that is neither toxic nor fragile, but supportive and generous.
In conversation with Normal People Director, Lenny Abrahamson
“It’s about trusting the capacity of the actors, but also the ability that human beings have to read each other. We do it all the time, we put together very strong pictures of how people are from very little.”
The making of Bong Joon-Ho: Memories of Murder
Bong consistently backs up this technical precision with an attention to thematic and emotional detail that, combined with his now infamously anarchic approach to genre convention, renders him a singular force in the landscape of modern cinema
Damsels in distress? – The rise of the lesbian period drama
Kate Winslet catches Saoirse Ronan’s eye in the mirror,
watching in the light of an oil lamp as she takes her corset off. Later, Ronan...
What The Write Offs tells us about literacy in Britain
Nothing has hit me as hard as this minute of TV for months. I had been sat in my little ivory tower of ‘well, why didn’t they just learn?’, but now I felt all that come down.
All treat, no terror – Halloween horrors for scardy cats
This year, Halloween is probably going to involve a movie night-in rather than a night out on the town. But not to fear! The...
Monos: More Than Just A Colombian Story
Landes has managed to create a raw film about humanity that goes far beyond the context of the Colombian conflict
Tenet review: Can visual spectacle make up for missing humanity?
After three postponements and millions of dollars’ worth of Covid-induced extra marketing, the much-anticipated action-thriller film, Tenet, has finally greeted a global audience, giving...
Have I heard that somewhere before?: i’m thinking of ending things and a crisis of originality
Kaufman is confronted with the impossibility of forming a new idea in a world where everything has been thought before, by someone else
