Category: Film

From watching a blockbuster at the cinema to watching a program on Netflix, the entertainment industry has had to adapt at a rapid pace to be able to keep up with demand from audiences. But to what detriment? For starters, the movie industry has produced multiple classics over the years. This ranging from the 1950s… Continue reading The Slop Era Is Upon Us

There needs to be some way to distil a review that enables audiences to navigate the sheer density of a production in one quick bite. With the average ticket becoming prohibitively expensive, it would be impossible for even the most avid theatregoer to watch everything on offer across the UK and West End. Understandably, we… Continue reading The Fault in Our Stars: should we rethink our quantitative assessment of theatre?

I watched One Battle After Another in the same week that I rewatched Longlegs and Weapons. Following the double bill of cultish mind control and paranormal fascination, I oddly found myself much more disturbed and sweaty watching the plot of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film unfold. A loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, the story follows Bob, a washed-up revolutionary hiding with… Continue reading One Battle After Another – Mankind is Scarier Than Any Ghost

Tourette’s syndrome was discovered in the 1980s and wasn’t something that people would discuss casually. Most people didn’t even know what it was during that time. However, forJohn Davidson, growing up in a small Scottish village meant living with a condition no one could name or understand. The new 2025 film I Swear, directed by Kirk Jones, takes us back to that time, telling us about… Continue reading “I swear” the movie that made Britain listen

Alice Lowe’s Timestalker is an inventive, genre-bending dark comedy that traverses time, love and existential questions with her signature sharp wit and emotional depth. Following her critically acclaimed debut feature Prevenge (2016), Lowe returns with a more ambitious and stylistically experimental project. In Timestalker, she once again demonstrates her unique voice, blending comedy with moments… Continue reading Timestalker: Alice Lowe’s darkly hilarious journey through love and time

If there weren’t enough grim dystopian realities in film and TV, this 2025 adaption of Stephen King’s novel ‘The Long Walk’ has another one for us to think about. Set in an alternative, post-war 1970s America, the film follows 50 young men competing in an annual contest with one simple goal: walk until there’s only… Continue reading The Long Walk: an intimate journey with the walking dead

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will write the script for the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has announced. It marks the latest step in a major overhaul of the iconic British spy franchise, following Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson handing over creative control to Amazon as part of a lucrative deal. Knight… Continue reading Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to write next James Bond film

Released in 2009, it introduces itself as a comedy that is not so much about lying which is defined as saying something that is not but it summarizes all the facts that are better kept silent. We most often lie to spare people and our feelings, to protect ourselves, for bad intentions and by omission. … Continue reading The Invention of Lying: A Comedy That Tells the Truth About Dishonesty