A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Sheila Vand in A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night When I started thinking about writing this I wanted to entitle it 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and a 30 Year Old Desperately Tries To Stay Awake' but for many different reasons I decided against that. For one, that title is longer than …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 4: The 25 Best Films (10-1)

When the year started, we were coming out of a cinematic dead zone, one that didn't seem to be catching up to reality all that quickly. The upcoming blockbusters seemed dire and the selection for the first half of the year was few and far between. Although my top 10 includes one of the first …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 3: The 25 Best Films (20-11)

This section of the list goes from musicals to murder mysteries to a horror film that bucks conventions. Each is on here for the way it expounds upon its genre to add something new. This includes a romance that builds upon the novel it is based on by making a romance more about social issues …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 2: The 25 Best Films (25-21)

I recently read that while more films were released this year, the film industry won't reach the output of a pre-pandemic world until 2024 and while 2021 was one of the worst for quality cinema, 2022 has oddly found most of its successes, at least critically in the smaller films, showing that much like 2020 …

End of Year Review 2022 Part 1: The 10 Worst Films of 2022

I remember last year when I was writing my Best and Worst film lists, I lost heart talking about the best films as they were few and far between from the bad ones I had seen that year. This year the difference is vast and the films I enjoyed felt far away from the ones …

LFF in The Midlands: A Review

Since 2010 the London Film Festival (LFF) has been expanding its showings across the country to allow a wider array of film enthusiasts and general audiences to experience new voices and early access to hundreds of films, be they shorts or full-length features. This year was the first I was able to watch just a …

End of Year Review 2021: The 10 Worst Films of the Year

Its been a good long while since I thought about sitting down and writing something and there is a good reason for that. My last piece, a tiny look at Disney's Jungle Cruise was all the way back at the end of August and since then the thought of writing about film, or more specifically …

Learning from Kodachrome

Ed Harris, Jason Sudekis and Elizabeth Olsen in Kodachrome I've been stuck inside for 25 days. Twenty five days ago my brother came down with Covid. Part of a third wave that three months ago, we assumed vaccines would nip in the bud. 2 days after that I had it too, maybe because I picked …

We Are Not Heroes: The History of The Last of Us

Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us Flash back to June 2020, we are mid pandemic and everyone is clamouring for not just movies to watch but new books, games and television to occupy their time. Renowned game company Naughty Dog after initially pushing back the release of their much anticipated sequel to The …

Small Axe – A Past Not Past

Letitia Wright in Mangrove Coming late to the party and choosing to binge all of Steve McQueen's Small Axe series of films in one week in early January it was impossible not to notice how wildly different each story told here was from the other. While sometimes it made the experience as a whole inconsistent, …