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Illustration by Maddy Maguire Every woman with a Letterboxd account and an attraction to the opposite sex can tell you precisely where they were when Timothée Chalamet first bewitched them. Personally, I was in my living room, pretending to revise for my A-level mocks. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird  (2019) was on the television, muted, and I looked up for two seconds only to forget what it meant to breathe. It’s a terrible truth, but it is my own. There Timothée was, in all his Fr

Photo by Bence Szemerey via Pexels (licensed under the Pexels Licence ) A century after the genre first haunted the silver screen, Gothic sensibilities and traditions have crept back into cinema, uncannily suited to express the anxieties of the 2020s. While some Gothic monsters remain the most recognisable figures in literature and film, these stories have always been less about the monsters themselves than about the systems and histories that give rise to them. From the ec

In the film and TV industry, live-action adaptations have become the new craze. They cater to the existing fans of a piece of media, while also trying to amass the biggest possible viewership, but can both sets of viewers be successfully satisfied?

All images credited to Rebecca Woolich The world of film is multifaceted. We often focus on the stories told in long-form: but the individuals who make short films have an equally important message to tell, and deserve recognition and platforming. One such film is BOY , which follows Danny, a young gay man looking for a casual hookup. He meets Mark on a dating app and invites him over to fulfil his desire. But Danny soon realises that he’s not the only one with a mission. The

Photo by nidan via Pixabay (licensed under the Pixabay Content Licence ) Since the release of its first trailer, “ Wuthering Heights ” (Emerald Fennell, 2026) has made one thing clear: this is not a story about love conquering all, nor even about love consuming everything; rather, it is about the romanticisation and commodification of abuse shrouded under the pretense of love. Calling it an adaptation of Wuthering Heights  would be an overstatement; many critics and devoted

Photo by Raymond Yeung via Unsplash Teenagers of today exist within a technological autocracy - they are governed by their online existence and forget to literally touch grass. I think there has been a huge cultural shift in the Gen Z stratosphere which has made children (and yes, I do mean children) grow up too fast. Everyone from the ages of 10 to 18 wants to be an adult. This desire to exist outside their childhood has impacted vital childhood experiences. I worry about th

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona via Unsplash London Palestinian Film Festival returns to London, exploring the history, depth, urgency and unknown parts of Palestinian life and cinema. Epicly Palestine’d  (2015) and EXIST  (2025) form a conversation across time. Two films filmed nearly a decade apart, documenting the same fragile miracle: the emergence of skateboarding in Palestine, not as just a hobby, but as a language of resistance, identity, and breath. These are not

Once Upon A Time in Gaza , (Tarzan and Arab Nasser, 2025); Image courtesy of London Palestine Film Festival When I heard that the London Palestine Film Festival was showing a film with a plot involving a falafel shop and a drug operation, I was all ears. Add to the fact that it happens to be a black comedy directed by acclaimed filmmakers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, and I knew it would be worth the ride.  Bizarrely, the movie begins with a recent quote from Donald Trump musing on

Photo  by Brett Jordan via Flickr  (licensed under CC BY 2.0 ) Amongst the noise of Dylan and Presley, Elton and Williams, Deliver Me From Nowhere  lands quietly, unfurling more than just a tale of hedonistic, rockstar excesses, but rather, something much deeper. Springsteen is immortalised in an intimate, slow-paced, introspective take on the ghosts we carry, how they haunt our daily lives, and the ways we choose to escape them. Jeremy Allen White brings life and depth to Sc

Photo by aj_aaaab on Unsplash A relative of mine recently said to me: “Films aren’t the same anymore, I don’t want to see anything at the cinema nowadays.” She worked in the film industry for 50 years. I had just finished asking her about her career and she reflected fondly, but to see her disappointment at what was once her scene saddened me. I thought back to the last time we had been to the cinema together. We saw The Naked Gun (2025), a legacy sequel to the original fra