Theatre

Steve Mcqueen’s latest film is a bold move from slow-burn dramas with a strolling pace into the department of fast paced blockbuster heist-movie. Regardless of this, Widows still really feels…

The French New Wave adored video essays as the form of expression. Video essays were the form of expression adored by the French New Wave. It allows using images to…

Suspiria is a surprising and radical reimagining of Dario Argento’s 1977 film. The story is centred around Susie Bannion (Jessica Harper/Dakota Johnson), a young American, who moves to Germany to…

Angie Thomas’ debut novel, The Hate U Give, has recently been brought onto the big-screen, with the powerful and politically critical adaptation being directed by George Tillman Jr. With Amandla…

I did not always believe in the magic of cinema. Sitting in one of a thousand identical cinemas, looking at the waves of unoccupied seats, can make you feel more…

Mike Leigh’s Peterloo hit cinemas nationwide on November 2nd and Duke of York’s Picturehouse bestowed us with the pleasure of witnessing the film on the big screen. Does it sit…

Picturehouse’s ‘Spaced’ season screened Tarkovsky’s much revered Solaris. Beautifully shot, the film begs to be enjoyed on the big screen and we took this opportunity to look back at Solaris’…

Steve McQueen is a member of the rare species of those established gallery-based artists that made a successful transition to commercial cinema. Being one of the most established powerhouse names…

In a day and age where we have a wide array of films at our fingertips through a variety of online streaming services, it is becoming rarer for most people…

On the border between California and Nevada lies the El Royale hotel and (former) casino. The El Royale, now run down and largely uninhabited, may have lost its gambling licence…

In the various online polls for which celebrity the public could bring back from the dead, the legend that is Mr Freddie Mercury (originally known as Farrokh Bulsara), will consistently…

I had the opportunity to watch the picturehouse release of An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018) at Duke’s at Komedia in Brighton. This is the second feature film directed…

Apart from showing the mainstream flicks, Brighton Film Festival allows you to go off the beaten track and watch something atypical or sometimes bizarre. Here are the five films that…

Films festivals often allow watching great films months before their regular releases. Here are the five films screened at the Brighton Film Festival that may be really hot during the…

Although female directors are finding more and more space for their works in the contemporary film industry, there is still a sense of female filmmakers being severely underrepresented. By 2018…

Striking up laughter in cinema screens once again, Rowan Atkinson may have given up playing lovable Mr. Bean, but he hasn’t retired as Johnny English just yet. Now aged 63,…

All you need to know about autumn at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts If you have not seen the ACCA’s new autumn programme, you may be overwhelmed by…

The newest film from the notorious Gaspar Noé was so critically acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival that the director himself could not believe it. Climax opens with a closing…

At the outset, Mr Messier’s FIELD at once invoked The Matrix and Daedalus’ Boiler Room set. The basic concept of this mixed media performance relies on transducer microphones picking up…

Half-documentary, half-crime-drama, American Animals is an innovative piece of work. Under Bart Layton’s precise direction, this challenging style heightens the moments of farcical comedy and adrenaline-pumping crime scenes whilst also…