• Film Review – It Follows

    “I am no prophet – and here’s no great matter.” When reading or hearing the premise for a film it is sometimes impossible to not immediately think of another. It Follows is about a killer curse which will relentlessly hunt down its victims until they “pass it on” by...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #5

    As a second year undergraduate studying Law with French, my Erasmus year is fast approaching, and what better way to get a flavour of what to expect than by giving the 2002 César award-winning film, L’auberge espagnole, a watch? I can safely say that if my year abroad is...
  • Film Review – The Duke Of Burgundy

    Mild Spoilers It’s 43 years since Brando and Schneider taught the world a new use for butter and in that time as cinemagoers we haven’t advanced much. Either the audience I just happened to witness Fifty Shades of Grey with is the most repressed in history or that cluster of titterers...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #4

    is based on a contagion outbreak in a tower block in the middle of a busy Spanish city centre. Although this was my first foreign film and the subtitles were slightly displeasing, I found this film to be a perfect depiction of how found footage horror films could...
  • Film Review – Focus

    In 2006, the BBC broadcasted a television series called Hustle that ran for 8 seasons and followed a group of elite con-artists pulling off scams, and it was incredibly entertaining. Every single one of the 48 episodes involved a clever, solitary twist at the end of each 60 minute chapter....
  • Film Review – Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of

    Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of takes fans on a roller coaster ride with one of the world’s best-selling boy bands of all time, and we experience the highs and lows of each member’s journey from boyhood to manhood. The film focuses on the group’s 20th year...
  • Film Review – Love Is Strange

    Ira Sachs’s new film about love, life, and family stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as couple Ben and George. After finally being able to marry, George (Molina) is fired from his post as a music teacher at a Catholic school. Ben (Lithgow) is a retired artist and his...