The chameleonic talents of Judi Dench
Judi Dench’s strength as an actor lies in the believability of the characters she portrays. She plays a part with such conviction that, whether the character is inherently likeable or not, you care about her and want to know her fate. In smaller roles where Dench’s screen time is more limited, her characters carry the overall narrative forward, More...
How do you make a millennial period piece?
They say everything happens in cycles – the past few years, millennials have started to experience a minor existential crisis at the sight of Y2k fashion plastered on the covers of Vogue and GQ, shivering at More...
Inside the design world of Jean-Luc Godard
A new exhibition dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard’s last work highlights his artistry and focuses on how the influential French filmmaker implemented a haptic approach not only to filmmaking but the entire creative More...
Nightbitch review – Amy Adams is back
Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch is the kind of sincere, mid-budget indie that was all the rage in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. During the turn of the century, films began to deconstruct the traditional roles More...
Grand Theft Hamlet review – all the world’s a stage
Whether through isolation, financial uncertainty, grief or trepidation over whether life would ever feel the same, the pandemic did a number on all of us. For many artists, there was the added challenge of losing More...
What is the truth about digital projection?
While promoting Magnolia at the end of the 1990s, Paul Thomas Anderson spoke about digital projection in cinemas as one of his biggest fears: “Ultimately, it’s like watching the best TV screen in the world More...
Club Zero review – leaves a sour taste
In 2009 Jessica Hausner presented Lourdes at the Venice Film Festival – a film about the French town which has become a revered sight of pilgrimage for many Catholics after visions of the Virgin Mary supposedly More...
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl review – searing and disorientating
One evening, while driving home from a friend’s fancy dress party, Shula (Susan Chardy) discovers a dead boy in the middle of a deserted road. On closer inspection, she realises it’s her Uncle Fred. Being More...
Remembering Every Night review – cinema as poetry
Resonant of Japanese auteur Yasujirô Ozu’s transcendent filmmaking, Yui Kiyohara’s fourth film Remembering Every Night is a drifting ode to the unsung joys of everyday life. It’s as minimal as a drama can More...
How MediCinema brings the magic of movies to hospital patients
When I first started to go to the cinema solo during my time at university, I was often plagued with doubts, mainly due to the social stigma. At first I felt as though people were judging me, wondering if they More...
