• Look out for… June

    When Steven Spielberg’s classic, Jaws, was released in 1975, it ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster, morphing the film calendar to produce a 7-month long season of big budget action movies, released practically every weekend – and 42 years later, 2017 is no different. For those who...
  • Trend Watch 3: Creature Comforts

    As the promise of future sun coaxes us into the month of May, springtime motifs of the cute and cuddly are sticking around for a little while longer, whilst also cropping up in come of the unlikeliest of places. The most notable of these places, in fact, seems to...
  • Adaptation – Repetition or Reinvention?

    Repetition is apparently Hollywood’s go-to form – from live-action remakes of Disney classics, to adaptations of fiction from a variety of forms, sometimes you wonder if there is any original content to be found on the big-budget silver screen. But when it comes to adaptations specifically, repetition becomes a...
  • Look Out For… May

    Ah, May. A wonderful time of the year, when the Sun is shining and the trees are blossoming. Well, unless you’re a student, in which case the month is full of coffee, cramming and more coffee. If you happen to have a couple of hours to spare, though, May...
  • The 21st Century’s 10 Greatest Films: Synecdoche, New York

    Another addition to Sean’s list of the 10 greatest films of the 21st Century. Next up: Synecdoche, New York. If there is one film that I find almost unbearable to watch and incredibly difficult to summarise my feelings on, it would have to be Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York. I...
  • Let’s Articulate #20 – Is this representation?

    Following the massive media excitement about the first “exclusively gay” moment in a Disney movie – LeFou in the new live-action Beauty and the Beast – which turned out to be based on a blink-and-you-miss-it non-event, I got thinking about what actually qualifies as LGBTQ+ representation in artistic media....
  • Film Sans Frontiers: Lending a Helping Hand

    At a time when borders are becoming increasingly more talked about than unison, The Nottingham Alternative Film Network put together an evening dedicated to the understanding and celebration of immigration. On March the 19th, at The White Lion Bar and Kitchen pub in Beeston, the Nottingham Alternative Network put...