The Year So Far
A Behemoth Playlist
Film Features
-
Film Features
The Utopia Of Rules: 14 Paragraphs About John Wick
The John Wick films have been good largely because of all the things they don’t do. It is a kin...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
“Henry Is A Total Blank”: David Lynch On The Origins Of Eraserhead
Photo credit: Dean Hurley Jack, Jack’s dog Five, and my brother, John, drove cross country from...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
Napoli Ever After? The Rise And Fall Of Diego Maradona
Living in the shadow of a volcano must add a certain frisson to one’s existence. You get to enj...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
Hollywood Endgame: The Boring Messianism Of The Avengers
Given absolute power, the sudden capacity to do literally anything, without limit, what would y...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
Lost In Music: Brian Welsh & Kieran Hurley Talk Beats
Brian Welsh’s pulsating new film Beats focuses on two working-class Scottish lads in 1994. John...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
In Space No-One Can Hear You Think: Claire Denis's High Life
Initial reviews of Claire Denis’ new film, High Life, following its preview at the Toronto Film...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
The Ghost Of Pictures Past: Reveries And Revenants At Glasgow Film Festival
The city of Glasgow is ideally sized for a film festival; you can immerse yourself in the headl...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Features
Life Through A Screen: Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade
Hollywood has often looked to childhood – especially those formative teenage years with their h...
0 commentsRead »
Film Reviews
-
Film Reviews
Escaping Suburban Ennui: Date Night And Other Burb Pics
If you are in your 20s and English, you may not really be familiar with the concept of a ‘date ...
0 commentsRead » -
Film Reviews
Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail
You probably already know this from the countless rants of foamy-mouthed TV newscasters, but ye...
10 commentsRead » -
Film Reviews
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Reviewed
Time and time again, the film industry staggers in front of its collective audience like a remo...
1 commentRead » -
Film Reviews
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island Reviewed
Martin Scorsese has long had a habit of switching cinematic lanes in the wake of blanket acclai...
4 commentsRead » -
Film Reviews
Blur Doc No Distance Left To Run Reviewed
"Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal..." Rockumentaries by their very nature start with the conce...
1 commentRead » -
Film Reviews
Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed
Will Self, accorded the job of writing an introduction to an updated translation of We by Yevge...
4 commentsRead » -
Film Reviews
Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Reviewed
Pipe smoking? Check. Intellectual prowess? Check. Astute observations and forensic skills? Chec...
7 commentsRead » -
Film Reviews
Vice Documentary Swansea Love Story Reviewed
Over a period of six months filming Swansea’s drug-addicted youth, Leo Leigh (son of British au...
3 commentsRead »
News Headlines