Category: Film

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    Kate Byng-Hall

    Cheesy Film Favourites

    Sometimes high-brow entertainment is not what we’re looking for, and that’s okay! We all need those couple hours to switch off our minds and have a good time with a fun movie. It is therefore understandable that these are usually the movies we love most – so here our our favourites! Mamma Mia dir. Phyllida […]

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    Callum Nelmes

    Review: Raya and the Last Dragon – Formulaic And Unsatisfying Animation

    Callum Nelmes offers his verdict on Disney’s latest animation feature.

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Sound of Metal – Drama About Hearing Loss With Thunderous Performances

    Reese Beckett review Riz Ahmed’s much anticipated awards contending performance in Darius Marder’s debut feature.

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gems: The Sound and the Fury

    James Franco is a name typically associated with his many versatile performances in Hollywood throughout his seasoned career, one which has been active for around thirty years since Franco found his start in Freaks and Geeks in the 1990s. Much less is known about Franco’s foray into directing and producing films, with only The Disaster […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Review: Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell – An Insight On The Influential Rapper Minus The Music

    Reese Beckett checks out Emmet Malloy’s new documentary about the late New York rapper.

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    Alice Fortt

    Strange Movie Endings

    Needless to say, film endings are important; whether it be the perfect scene that ties the narrative together or even something unexpected, that end shot has the potential to retroactively warp all your opinions of what you saw before. Sometimes this is good, and sometimes that ending is just so bizarre that it barely fits […]

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    Katie Evans

    A Promising Young Woman: The Female Revenge Genre

    The female revenge genre has had a revamp over recent years. Strong representations of femininity in cinema have shifted from the ‘final girl’ trope of 80s horror to the contemporary female-fronted dramas and thrillers that offer numerous award nominations for those in the lead roles on an increasingly international scale. The upcoming black comedy thriller Promising […]

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    Daisy Gazzard

    Stephen King: Book to Screen

    Daisy Gazzard ponders on why Stephen King’s books are still perfect material for film adaptations.

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    Theo Smith

    Shakespearean Film Adaptations

    William Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted numerous times to film. Our writers pick out the best of the bunch.

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    Theo Smith

    Review: Music – Disastrously Out-Of-Tune Autism Musical-Drama

    Theo Smith reviews Sia’s controversial musical-drama about an autistic teenage girl.

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    Reece Beckett

    Cult Classics: Crash

    Based on J.G. Ballard’s equally notorious cult favourite novel of the same name, David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996) may be the most divisive film from a director who has been consistently toying with the line between what is and isn’t allowed in mainstream horror cinema. He certainly has his more accessible works, such as horror classic […]

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    Jacob Hando

    Review: News of the World – Tom Hanks’s Sprawling Western is Good News

    Jacob Hando offers his verdict on Paul Greengrass’s Western starring Tom Hanks

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    Theo Smith

    Seasonal Films

    As times change, there are certain films that just feel inherently tied to a particular time of year. While there are the obvious Christmas or Halloween films, there are certainly films that you could watch whenever, yet take you straight to a specific season that you could even be nostalgic for. Here are some of […]

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    Reece Beckett

    Hidden Gem: Two Lovers

    Reece Beckett explains why James Gray’s 2008 romantic melodrama has been overlooked since its release.