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Denis Villeneuve Screen Talk LFF 2024: Science Fiction and Silence
An icon of cinema with a flawless filmography, French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve graces Royal Festival Hall with his presence...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


‘Harvest’ LFF 2024 Review: Cultivation and Chaos
A hazy mosaic of ripe wheat and endless fields, Harvest is a pastoral hallucination slathered in mud and haunted by a threatening...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


An Ageing Tale, Finally Interrogated: 'The Taming of the Shrew' at the Globe, Explained
So hysterical was the acting that it was easy to forget that the thematic undercurrents driving this story are less than comedic.
Sophie-May Ward-Marchbank
Oct 22, 20244 min read


Summertime - The Thoughts Of A Thought Daughter
Staff Writer Eleanor Hughes ruminates on summertime and its temporal properties, exploring nostalgia, fleeting moments of rest, and the
Eleanor Hughes
Oct 21, 20242 min read


Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Re-writing Voyeurism In The 1980s
“You let a total stranger record your sexual life on videotape, but you won’t tell your own sister?” Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Steven...
Keyuri Gawde
Oct 21, 20244 min read


‘September Says’ LFF 2024 Review: Intimacy and Imitation
In a recent Cannes Film Festival interview, actress and director Ariane Labed described her first feature film, September Says (an...
Hannah Tang
Oct 21, 20243 min read


Performance and History Collide at the Southwark Playhouse: 'Land of the Free' Review
The cast must be applauded for breathing life into the best elements of this play.
Gillian Choy
Oct 21, 20243 min read


Contemporary Chronicling: In Conversation with Ted Hodgkinson Ahead of the London Literature Festival
“ We love words .” When preparing for my interview with Ted Hodgkinson, head of literature and spoken word at the Southbank Centre, I...
Dan Ramos Lay
Oct 20, 20245 min read


CONTROL YOURSELF!: Reviewing The Substance And The Phenomenon Of The Comically Grotesque.
★★★☆☆ Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has stood out in recent weeks amongst the crescendo of horror releases leading up to Halloween as a...
Ellie Dempster & Hector Evett
Oct 20, 20244 min read


In Conversation with Izzie Malinowski: Ticket Inspector Collective
Founded by two friends who met in GCSE science class forever ago, the Ticket Inspector Collective launch party promises to be an evening...
Emily Henman
Oct 16, 20244 min read
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