by Jemimah Steinfeld

One of the most memorable lines in classic prison drama The Shawshank Redemption is when Tim Robbins’ character, Andy Dufrasne avers: “The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest …

by Gabriella Apicella
When I’m told how to watch a film, I tend to think that the movie in question is probably best avoided.  Certainly if you scout around, you will see that Jim Jarmusch’s latest movie, …

by Gabriella Apicella

I don’t understand guys too well. Or the alpha-male type of guy anyway. They baffle me – as I’m assured women baffle men.  Not only in the ways they relate to me, …

by Gabriella Apicella

It’s raining outside. Underneath a backstreet record store, a crowd gathers in front of a small stage. As the minutes tick by, expectation mounts. A softly spoken silver …

by Gabriella Apicella

City of Life and Death is set in Nanking in 1937 during the infamous occupation of the then Chinese capital by the Japanese army towards the end of the war between the two …

by Octavia Morris
Beautiful Losers is a documentary film about the art movement of the same name [ripped off the Leonard Cohen novel] formed around a handful of talented underdogs who found each other at …

by Gabriella Apicella
The average cost of a Hollywood blockbuster is now up to around $106 million. Low-budget movie Slumdog Millionaire cost $15million. The Blair Witch Project cost $22,000. Now, I’m not wishing to sound completely …

by Gabriella Apicella

The premise for this movie is compelling: a wife, unable to conceive naturally with her husband, has a one-night-stand with another man and falls pregnant. However, the young man becomes dangerously obsessed …

by Katy Darby

What red-blooded sci-fi fan doesn’t long for the beautiful, lonely, future meditations of the golden age of Hollywood in space? Films like Saturn 3 (scripted – I shit you not – by Martin …

by Gabriella Apicella

The story of Jesco White is horrifyingly unbelievable. The bleakly uncomplicated beginnings of his drug addiction took place a mere six years after the beginning of his life, when he first began …

by Chris Vernon

Somerset House and BAFTA conjure an image so British that it’s surprising that Richard Curtis didn’t sneak a subplot including them into Love Actually. Having played host to various centres for the Arts …

by Gabriella Apicella

The Marlene Dietrich of Maximillian Schell’s award-winning documentary is unfathomable, contradictory and enigmatic, in keeping with the persona she cultivated throughout her career.  Never allowing herself to be filmed despite Schell’s pleas, Dietrich …

by Tristan Summerscale

Blue Eyelids is the first feature film outing from the Mexican director Ernesto Contreras, having previously produced a successful series of shorts and co-edited the feature documentary The Last Heroes of the …

by Jemimah Steinfeld

In a recent survey conducted by experts at Oxford University, evidence has been discovered to trace a link between psychiatric disorders in fathers and psychiatric disorders in their children. It is believed that …

by Patrick Schrijnen

The Burning plain sees Guillermo Arriaga, writer of 21 grams, Amores Perros and Babel, make his directorial debut with a film in which he continues to tell multi-threaded emotional dramas that cross …

by Olivia Humphreys
One of the most unlikely offshoots from Harry Potter is a whole new musical genre: Wizard Rock. Back in 2002, two teenage brothers in Massachusetts started a band called Harry and the …