Lifestyle and Culture Editor, Bella Davis, sheds light on the latest celebrity filled Agatha Christie adaptation and whether it lives up to its famous cast list. Behold, Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express, the […]
CinemaScope or CinemaEscape?
With the release of La La Land to Netflix and Baby Driver to DVD and Blu Ray this week, these films have traded grand cinema settings for the inevitable screenings in pillow fortresses with the […]
Love the Art but Hating the Artist?
In light of the recent allegations of predatory sexual behaviour made against Kevin Spacey, amongst the many issues that have arisen is the question of: Is it ok for fans to still enjoy Spacey’s work […]
The Roman Polanski Retrospective and its Moral Implications
Hannah Stokes discusses the recent retrospective held for Oscar award-winning director, Roman Polanski, and discusses the possible need to separate art from artist. This Monday, a retrospective for Roman Polanski opened at the Cinematheque Francaise […]
Leeds on Film: “proof that student life truly has not changed much in 30 years”
The Yorkshire Film Archive are a charity who are in possession of over 50,000 professional and amateur films. They have a huge variety of films which together document over 120 years of life in the […]
La stoffa dei sogni at LIFF: shaking up Shakespeare
As part of Leeds International Film Festival, Gianfranco Cabiddu’s creative adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest was shown to fans and students alike – Arts writer Emma Prentice discusses it’s merits. As part of Leeds International Film Festival, […]
Dirty Dancing: a diamond in the dirt
From ‘nobody puts Baby in the corner’ to nobody puts women in the corner – Millie Buckingham discusses Dirty Dancing at thirty. Rejected by every big production company, Dirty Dancing seemed as though it was […]
Thor: Ragnarok – defying Marvel tropes
In Thor: Ragnarok, the “God of Thunder from Down Under” resurfaces from his notable absence since Avengers: Age of Ultron, smashing the box office and hammering home the comedy in a film that embodies all […]
The Death of Stalin: a not so historical satire?
Charlotte Perry reviews Armando Ianucci’s latest satire which strikes a lot closer to home than first expected. Just a few months ago, a poll of 1,700 Russians named Stalin as “the most outstanding person” of […]
Geostorm Isn’t Full of Awe; It’s Awful
Geostorm could have been mindless fun, but it fails to reach even those standards. With Gerard Butler at the helm of this fantasy science fiction, it was set to be just as exciting and impassioned […]
What Happened to Horror?
Horror used to fill a unique space in the film landscape. Lauren Bennett takes a look at the genre and asks: has horror lost its way? It’s common knowledge nowadays that horror movies have earned […]
The Straight Face of LGBT+ Cinema
Arts Editor, Mikhail Hanafi, explores the politics of LGBT+ representation in film. Which films are going to be cemented in LGBT+ film canon? If you ask the general public, you’d likely get answers like Brokeback […]