Elf Lyons interview – Don’t shop, adopt!
Elf Lyons is a nuanced performer whose show ‘Love Songs to Guinea Pigs’ is coming to Brighton Komedia on the 9th of October 2019. I had the pleasure of meeting…
“Booksmart” breathes fresh air into the coming of age genre
It is almost impossible to say something new in the genre of coming-of-age films. They always inevitably need to tick all of the usual boxes: the protagonist needs to break…
Avengers: Endgame Review
Finally, the culmination of 11 years, 21 films and over 80 characters, the Endgame is here, but can Marvel do the unthinkable and actually pull it off?
Wild Rose Review
With American musicals sweeping the box office, what can be expected from the Scottish A Star is Born.
Small Scale/Big Heart – Shazam! Film Review
The semi-officially titled DC Extended Universe (DCEU) has gotten off to a bumpy start ever since 2013’s painfully average Man of Steel, ultimately deriving into downright painful with the release…
Jordan Peele doubles down on satirical horror-comedy with US
Two years after Jordan Peele’s Oscar winning breakthrough, Get Out, expectations were high for the writer/producer/director’s follow up. Whilst Us falls short of the bar set by Get Out, it…
The Production of ‘A Clockwork Orange’
The clock is ticking for this controversial, phenomenal production to take to the stage and a explanation for why the themes of the play are so important in the modern…
Queer Eye Season 3: A Triumphant Rise to New Heights
With the Fab Fives’ long-awaited return, Netflix users tuck in to Queer Eye’s third season to watch both heart-breaking and heart-warming conversations, mesmerising physical, mental and architectural transformations with an…
Introducing the ACCA
With the Attenborough Centre right on our doorstep, we are lucky to to have access to year-round, contemporary performances and events. In support of this, I thought that I would…
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 herself – beginning with home videos of her childhood of…
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 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). While Guardians of The Galaxy (2014)…
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 was laid down for a red carpet, and at least…
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 the things that inspire her in her creative process. This…
‘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 south and the region of the Ga, and finally to…
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 to be recognised as a global classic. Scorsese was on…
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 direct and write Fighting with My Family, a comedic biopic…
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 him into this world. And although the retrospectives that follow…
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 of the same name, If Beale Street Could Talk follows…
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 classic directed by Blake Edward has stood the test of…
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 beautifully shot. Unfortunately, John Mathieson’s cinematography remains one of the…