M.I.A: Celebrating the Unified but Complex Identity of Refugees
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A (2018) is not your typical musician’s biographical documentary. For one, most of the film’s footage is shot by Maya…
A few things to Marvel at
Captain Marvel (2019) opens on the Kree capital planet of Hala and threatens to break some new ground for the…
Why the Academy never fails to disappoint
This year I hosted my first ever Oscars party. The living room was turned into the Dolby cinema, a towel…
In Conversation with Eva Riley
Brighton based filmmaker Eva Riley sat down with The Badger to talk about her upcoming debut feature ‘Perfect 10’ and…
‘It requires you’: Blak Whyte Gray
Our conversation starts with a journey. From an primary school in England, to the North of Ghana, down to the…
Touki Bouki; The meeting point of Senegal, Godard, and Beyonce
Restored to digital format in 2008 by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation (WCF), Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973) deserves…
Fighting with…the conventions of biopic filmmaking
Nine years since he made his cinematic directorial debut with Cemetery Junction, Stephen Merchant has returned to the big-screen to…
Childhoods are shattered in Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum
Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum begins with a shocking scene – a streetwise twelve year old Zain sues his parents for bringing…
Fall in Love with Heartbreak: If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins describes his latest feature as a series of “memories, dreams and nightmares”. Adapted from James Baldwin’s 1974 novel…
Vintage Sunday: that Breakfast at Tiffany’s feeling
The film Breakfast at Tiffany’s has captivated romantics since it was first shown in cinemas in 1961. The American Rom-Com…
Mary Queen of Scots: Compelling but never takes flight
There is no doubt about it; Josie Rourke’s new adaptation of one of the 16th century’s most intriguing plots is…
Hollywood’s Netflix New-Wave
Netflix has been ever-present in most of our lives now for a while, yet a couple years ago it still…
The Oscars’ ‘Best Popular Film’ Category reveals the vested interest that lies at the heart of Awards Shows
Anyone who has watched The Oscars before will know very well that artistic integrity isn’t prioritised in the way that…
‘First Man’ Review
Space travel has been a preoccupation for Filmmakers, almost since Cinema’s invention. George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon (1902)…
Romanticising the bad guy, why do we do it?
Reading Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita as a love story is a standard initial interpretation of the novel, despite the kidnap and…
How Netflix’s Sex Education is breaking stigmas and defying stereotypes
Netflix’s new series, Sex Education, has been released less than a month and has already got rave reviews from fans…
Keira Knightley rewrites gender in Colette
Colette is the biographical story of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, a French author, performer and dancer during the late nineteenth century. Keira…
Interview: A Conversation with Magnús Trygvason Elíassen
We interviewed Magnús Trygvason Elíassen ahead of Amiina’s performance of the score to Fantômas that took place on Saturday 17th November 2018 at…
Doctor Who turns to social commentary with Jodie Whittaker
Since the announcement of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor for series 11, Doctor Who has repeatedly been made the headlines.
Turkish family broken apart – Wild Pear Tree review
Comparing any film maker to Andrei Tarkovsky always seems like very risky business. The Russian director is considered to be…