“The world is changing,” states Michael Keaton’s character The Vulture at the beginning of Spider-Man: Homecoming. He couldn’t be more right, as over the last ten years the franchise has […]
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Review: The Circle
The Circle is the latest Netflix Original film (the second of which I have reviewed after Okja). It stars Emma Watson as Mae, who lands a job at a tech company […]
Retro-spective: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
This film was screened at City Screen as part of the Criminal Acts: A Charged Past season, which is to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in […]
Retro-spective: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
This is the first original series Star Trek film I’ve seen. I am a fan of the rebooted Chris Pine Star Trek films and really enjoyed Star Trek: First Contact […]
Retro-spective: Babel (2006)
What does a deaf-mute Japanese teen, a Moroccan shepherd family, a Wasp (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) American couple in crisis and a Mexican nanny have in common? Babel manages to dovetail […]
Retro-spective: The Alien franchise (1979-2012)
The Alien franchise is by far one of the most beloved in sci-fi cinema history. With Ridley Scott adding a sixth instalment to the Xenomorph saga, it feels like the […]
Summer lecture series: ’60s British cinema
Upon discovering that this lecture, ‘Sex and the swinging sixties: A history of British cinema’, was to be delivered by Professor Duncan Petrie of the Department of Theatre, Film and […]
Retro-spective: The Golden Compass (2007)
I’d love to be able to say that the film I am about to share with you was the best of my childhood. I’d love to say it fulfilled all […]
Retro-spective: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Midnight Cowboy is a wonderful film. It won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1969. It thoroughly deserved the accolades and I think would still […]
Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby
For many, Bridget Jones’s Diary is a time capsule to the turn of the century. A time when nineties liberation met noughties cynicism, and where the romantic dream was […]