• Cinematic Dogmatic #3 – 12/2/16 – 19/2/16

    Our newest feature brings you all the latest films in one place! Does A Bigger Splash live up to its name? Does Dad’s Army touch a nerve? Tom brings you quick-fire opinions on the hottest new releases. A Bigger Splash It’s incredibly difficult to render certain feelings effectively on screen, yet A Bigger Splash renders...
  • Painful Nostalgia: The Musical Memory of Mommy and 45 Years

    Though inherently an incredibly manipulative medium, film becomes doubly so when scores and soundtracks play a prominent role; the site of intersection between image and sound is by turns cynically prescriptive and sentimentally liberating. From the taut strings of Psycho (1960) to the exhilarating rush of Bowie’s ‘Modern Love’...
  • Film Review – 45 Years

    Early on in 45 Years, Tom Courtenay’s Geoff receives a letter from Switzerland pertaining to a significant event (which I will not reveal here) which occurred long before he met his current wife, Charlotte Rampling’s Kate. How quickly this news seeps into and to quote Kate “taints” everything they have...