The Brutalist Debate: Its Brutal Out Here
Nina Benjamin’s Critique ★★★★☆ I was sceptical going into The Brutalist. Nearly four hours long, with a muted marketing campaign, it didn’t initially excite me. But by the time the…
Breaking Down Big Boys: A Review of the Finale
★★★★★ Channel 4’s Big Boys has captivated audiences since its debut in 2022, and its concluding season depicts the chaos of the third year at university, particularly with a looming…
A24: The Pioneers of Original Storytelling
In an age where Hollywood has marvelled at new creative capabilities that technological advancements have provided the modern world, it seems shocking that ideas are beginning to stale. Cinema-goers require…
Supporting Women’s Rights and Women’s Wrongs: The Hitwoman Movie
On one aimless scroll through YouTube, I came across the trailer for Ana de Armas’ new action/thriller movie Ballerina. The film follows de Armas’ character, Eve Macarro, on a vengeance…
The Oscars 2025: Anora’s Surprising Sweep and the Unsurprising Snubs
Winning an Academy Award is considered the pinnacle of success for a filmmaker or actor’s career. Realistically, however, the Oscars are a contest of who deserves an award, whose “moment”…
Mickey 17: Sci-fi Blockbuster Turned Screwball Comedy
It’s been five years since Bong Joon Ho shocked the world by taking home three Oscars, including Best Picture, for his Korean comedy thriller Parasite (2019). His success marked the…
Upcoming Films by Sussex Students
Golden A young gymnast on the cusp of success comes to reject her life of elite gymnastics as a result of her tormenting coach; her mother. Trailer here. Directed by…
Severance Season 2: First Impressions
★★★★★ “Was a Pineapple Involved?”. Opening with a disorientating, Mission Impossible-esque shot of Mark (Adam Scott) running through the severed floor, Severance season two takes no time to get going.…
Review: Presence
★★★★☆ “I know there’s an excellent man inside of you, Tyler. I’d like to see him soon.” Through sheer determination, screenwriter David Koepp has turned the taboo ghost story on…
The Academy Awards: Prestige, Popularity, or Letterboxd?
Words by Jamie Gilbert & Miri Stoneham-Bull As the 97th Academy Awards approach, the annual debate over their relevance and status in popular culture arises once again. Whether upset with…
Is TikTok Live Replacing Television?
Like all media consumption, audiences are increasingly transitioning to digital platforms, including TikTok. Watching traditional TV channels has almost stopped among younger viewers, with 90% of 18- to 24-year-olds heading…
Cringe Culture: The Intersection of Misogyny and Ableism in Fandom Spaces
In 2020, a global lockdown encouraged people to entrench themselves in online fan spaces more than ever before, aided by the internet’s most popular platform: TikTok. But fandom culture existed…
Nosferatwo: Does the Remake Justify the 102-Year Wait?
The answer is: kind of. Robert Eggers shocks us with another twisted outing to our local cinema in the form of Nosferatu. The more seasoned film nerds will know this…
Cracking Comeback, Lad! Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
“Good grief, it’s you! Again!” Sixteen years after the madness of the ‘Were-Rabbit’, Aardman have returned my favourite duo to the screen – but not the cinema’s, no! Instead, Wallace…
Piracy: An Ethical Crime?
Piracy – the unauthorised use, reproduction, and distribution of another’s content, information or work, customarily only exchanged for monetary gain. It sounds like a crime, right? Well, it is. But…
Doctor Who and Capitalist Realism: Time to Question the Status Quo?
We cannot seem to fathom the idea that aliens might not actually want to invade us. As human beings, living in a capitalist system where gentrification, colonialism and exploitation are…
Gavin and Stacey: A Final Goodbye to A ‘Tidy’ Show
Christmas Day has passed; presents, food comas and tipsy board games are once again a distant memory. However, by 8:59 p.m., these frivolities were shoved, unceremoniously, to the back of…
Review: A Complete Unknown
The biopic genre claims another victim. The legacy of Bob Dylan has been told to audiences countless times over the star’s 60+ years in music. From Martin Scorsese’s documentary No…
How The Traitors Changed the Game in UK Reality TV
The Traitors arrived on UK screens in November of 2022, promising to feature a concept unlike anything seen before. The show is based on the Netherlands’ original version De Varraders,…
Leaving Room for a Sequel: The Apprentice
An inescapable aspect of The Apprentice is how it plays like an origin story for a villain like a cash-grab Disney prequel. Except this time the antagonist is not animated,…