Film

The collective eighties nostalgia fest that the world is currently binging on is showing no signs of yielding. Each week brings news of a new project set in the 1980s, a sequel to a film popular in the 1980s, or opinions that belong in the…

Our own Geoff Watkinson sat down with Lynne Davison, director of eerie folk horror Mandrake, which was recently released on Shudder, to talk all things horror. From influential classics and binge-worthy series to handy practical tips, like…

Pacification has the markers of a taut political thriller. There is an exotic setting, a colonial possession, and a white linen suit. One can image a well-intentioned Yves Montand playing the martyr for Costas-Gavras. Albert Serra,…

In lieu of their prison sentences, five men agree to be participants in top-secret experiment in which they will be prevented from sleeping for thirty days. Two detectives are tasked with interviewing the researchers involved in the…

Even if you’ve never heard of Yuen Woo-Ping, I can almost guarantee you’ve seen his work. A legendary Hong Kong film director in the 80s and 90s, he’s responsible for launching the career of not one but two martial arts legends. His first…

Don Bluth is well known for his work in the field of animation. He has brought to life classics of the animation Rennaissance of the 1990s, such as The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven, An American Tail and, in the case of today's…

Aladdin showed us a world, that was shining, shimmering, splendid. It was a film with great, memorable characters: although it fell dangerously close to cultural appropriation in its depictions, created a film that will be remembered as a…

No Country for Old Men is a trifecta of cinematic genius that unites the writing of Cormac McCarthy (a Pulitzer Prize winner and writer of the 2005 novel from which the film was adapted), the acting of Javier Bardem (Oscar winner for best…

Mandrake, Director Lynne Davison’s 85-minute feature film debut, opens with a scene at night in a foreboding, moss-covered forest (“the moss”). The camera looks down from above as a man who is chained around the neck digs desperately in…

Content Warning: references to self–harm from the very beginning "Nostalgia is Cancer" Eating Miss Campbell, the sophomore feature from Sheffield-based filmmaker Liam Regan, is a quasi-sequel to his 2014 debut My Bloody Banjo. It…