Category: Film

Book adaptations have always divided opinion, especially with texts as well-loved and hotly debated as Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. Over the years the classic tale of the tempestuous relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine has seen countless film, TV and theatre incarnations, and has even been immortalised in song by the inimitable Kate Bush. Unsurprisingly,… Continue reading Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece — why the Emerald Fennell adaptation fails to capture the heart of the moors

Cinematographers and film lovers alike seem to have developed a gothic appetite. Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, gained quite a lot of friction online and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike. The movie seems to be a part of a wider cinematographical tendency which leans towards the… Continue reading The return of the Gothic — a negotiation of humanity

“Art is free, shameless, irresponsible: the movement is intense, almost feverish; it resembles, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants… filled with meddlesome life” (Bergman, The Snakeskin). Travelling to an island in the Swedish archipelago from Stockholm Central Station requires a train and two buses. Or a train, a ferry and a bus.… Continue reading I want to go on like this — Sommaren with Monika by Ingmar Bergman

From CEOs basking in their wealth while their employees drown in overtime, to conspiracy theorists turned serial killers, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia shines a spotlight on the ugly side of humanity. If an alien were to come to Earth and watch it, there’s a high chance they’d be on the next spaceship home. “Bugonia” was an… Continue reading Bugonia review — Lanthimos’s latest film asks, is humanity a bubble?

Die, My Love (2025) is directed by the brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsey, who has a fearless way of exploring motherhood on screen. She doesn’t show us the happy, gentle, and joyful version of being a mother. Instead, she forces the audience to see the messy, uncomfortable reality- the postpartum depression, the internal chaos, the moments women rarely… Continue reading The Uncanny Side of Motherhood in Die, My Love

Very few TV shows can maintain a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score while delivering the most absurd lines and unjustifiably dramatic plot imaginable. But then again, very few shows are written by Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin. Gloriously ridiculous and so far overblown is The Chair Company, the new limited series written by the duo and fronted by… Continue reading The Chair Company: Tim Robinson’s profound ability to out-mortify the human experience

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s magnum opus, Frankenstein, has greatly influenced the arts over the past centuries. Spanning novels, characters inspired by the creature, and film adaptations that provide space for their own interpretation with artistic uniqueness and pioneering elements from the classic story. Among them is Guillermo del Toro’s version, released this year, which amassed 29.1M… Continue reading Parental Trauma Themes and Biblical Allusions in Frankenstein