Opening with an exaggerated, Monty Python-esque prologue played through the speakers, the scene of Pant Soc’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set: we’re in fifteenth century Paris and cross […]
Author: Lilli Hender
Review: Beyond Clueless
If you thought you liked teen movies, you don’t. Or not half as much as Charlie Lyne. He has compiled over two hundred films into this one visual essay and trawling […]
Feeling Sad? Ten Things To Avoid and Embrace
With Blue Monday not that long ago and the pressures of university grinding you down, we’ve compiled a list of (random) artsy things that you either shouldn’t touch with a […]
King’s Manor to screen the best of ASFF
If you missed the Aesthetica Short Film Festival, here is your chance to see the best of this year’s festival. As part of York Residents’ Festival, Aesthetica will be heading […]
Review: Whiplash
Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash has been inundated with great reviews and film festivals awards and nominations but why is unbeknownst to me. Whiplash was formerly an 18 minute short film, but upon winning […]
ASFF: Sunday
On the last day of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival I attended the Iraq screening, a Comedy screening, and a Drama screening; each was consistent with the high quality that […]
ASFF: Saturday
Having looked at Animation, Experimental, and Artists’ Film yesterday, we decided to view Documentary, Thriller, and Music alongside the special screening from Lebanon today. Lebanese Screening: Smart, powerful and visceral with […]
Aesthetica Short Film Festival: Friday
The Aesthetica Short Film Festival simultaneously unites and juxtaposes York’s latest cultural advances with its historic charm; striding from Reel to New Schoolhouse Gallery to 1331 to City Screen, I […]
Review: Laggies (Say When)
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Keira Knightley speaks of how dark her work had become; seemingly in an attempt to lighten things up she has turned to romcoms, […]
Top 10 Halloween Films
We’ve compiled a series of frightening films for you here at The Yorker, so if you don’t feel like donning your cape or searching for your witches hat we have […]