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Where are you from? No, where are you really from? - A Review of the Film 'Lion'
Where are you from? Seemingly a simple question. If I was to ask you where you came from, would the answer be straightforward? ‘I was...
Faris Malik
Oct 14, 20224 min read


‘Bones and All’ Review: A Ravenous Romance for the Ages
Luca Guadagnino is very much the old-fashioned romantic. Into his 50s, the director still seems infatuated by incredibly tender stories...
Charlie Taylor
Oct 14, 20223 min read


'The Wonder' Review: stellar performances tarnished by questionable narrative choices
Credit: Netflix Rarely is there a film ruined for me by a single choice. It seems dismissive to delegate all of a film’s shortcomings to...
Alex Alcock
Oct 13, 20223 min read


'White Noise' Review: A triumphant nose-dive into absurdism
Credit: Netflix White Noise is not a film made for Noah Baumbach fans. The director’s first venture into literary adaptation is spread...
Alex Alcock
Oct 8, 20223 min read


'Moonage Daydream' Review: a dazzling odyssey of sound and vision
This review is accompanied by an interview featuring Bowie's collaborators and other special guests. Credit: Universal Pictures It seems...

Lydia Leung
Sep 24, 20223 min read


Disavowal in Parallel Mothers
At first glance of the promotional poster for Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s 2021 film ‘Parallel Mothers’, I was struck by the...
Darla Timewell
Apr 4, 20224 min read


In Conversation with Nicole Favarelli, director of Chocolate Tronchetto
Nicole Favarelli has recently graduated from MetFilm School and has already had a movie on the festival circuit and another one finalised...
Greta Fazzi
Mar 7, 20223 min read


Poetry + Film Hack: Rocks and the beauty of adolescent friendship
Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...
Maisie Allen
Dec 11, 20214 min read


Jazz and The City: Film Screenings at EFG London Jazz Festival
Image from Young Man With A Horn, provided by Barbican Centre From the 13th to the 18th of November, a total of seven films were screened...
Dong Liu
Dec 6, 20212 min read


The French Dispatch and Wes Anderson’s Aesthetic at 180 Studios – A Review
Written by Hebe Hancock and Mikayla Lorini “The second thing I always wanted to do was to make a movie about the New Yorker”. The film is not totally based around the New Yorker magazine, but it was “totally inspired by it”. Delayed for months due to COVID, The French Dispatch is one of this year’s most anticipated films. With a star studded cast that boasts Adrien Brody as the art dealer, Timothee Chalamet as a student revolutionary movement leader, Frances McDormand as Ame
Mikayla Lorini
Dec 5, 20216 min read
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