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'The Zone of Interest' Review: An Exercise In Restraint
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest gives us a cold, piercing and uncomfortable view of real Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss...
Anainah Dalal
Mar 4, 20245 min read


'The Holdovers' Review: A Melancholic Comedy With Acting Excellence And Nostalgic Charm
Alexander Payne’s melancholy comedy The Holdovers draws us into the world of three misfits, a cynical teacher (Paul Giamatti), an unruly...
Emily Black
Mar 2, 20244 min read


Saturday Shorts Screening At BFI Future Film Festival 2024: An Electric Selection Of Personal Stories, Rooted In Universal Resonance
The Saturday Shorts Screening event on Day 3 of the BFI Future Film Festival 2024 was an exhilarating mix of films that were deeply...
Anwesh Banerjee
Feb 27, 20247 min read


'Samsara' Review: Visually Delicious, Structurally Intriguing, And Textually Profound
In Buddhist philosophy, the term ‘Samsara’ refers to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, within which all living beings are bound by...
Ariunzaya Batkhuyag
Feb 13, 20243 min read


The Girls of Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola is slowly but surely establishing herself as the voice of girlhood in a world that has long misrepresented this phase of...
Maaya Karuppiah
Feb 6, 20244 min read


The Scala Of Tomorrow: Where Is Cult Cinema Today?
Sticky seats, loud heckling, and the not-so-vague hint of booze. These are the remains of the Scala Cinema for those ever-devoted fans....
Barney Nuttall
Jan 31, 20245 min read


‘Imagine the Sound’ At Barbican Cinema: Disdain For The Known
A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...
Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 19, 20245 min read


Motherhood, Memory, and Gothic Immortalisation In The 'Eternal Daughter'
‘She stretched out her arms to the shadows and the shadows within the shadow. “They came because I loved them—because I needed them—I...
Mali Morgan-Doyle
Jan 17, 20246 min read


In conversation with Crap Film Club
Crap Film Club is a group which meets every month or so to watch a terrible, terrible film and laugh. A lot. It seems like a winning...
Barney Nuttall
Dec 20, 20239 min read


‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ (1984): Miyazaki’s Reflection on Ecocide and Imperialism
In 1984 Hayao Miyazaki released Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, his story of a simple agrarian community being dragged into the...
Charley Dennis
Dec 13, 20236 min read
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