• 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...
  • Around the World in 80 Films #3

    Released at a pivotal time of change in Korean history (1961), it is no surprise that Yoo Hyun-Mok’s Obaltan (The Aimless Bullet) touches upon so many divisive issues that the country was experiencing at the time. A film of unquestionable depth and tragedy, it focuses in on one particular...
  • “How Have You Never Seen…Pulp Fiction?”

    Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction has become one of the most iconic films of our time; such a revolutionary and unparalleled pastiche that it’s difficult to believe I have somehow managed to avoid it all these years. There are references to this film’s most memorable scenes everywhere in popular culture,...