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Roxy-Moon Dahal Hodson
Feb 124 min read
‘I’m Not Here’ at the London Short Film Festival: The Politics Of ‘Shop Girls’ And The Service Industry:
'I'm Not Here' (Carol Morley, 1994); Image courtesy of the BFI LSFF 2025. Halcyon Days: Radical Short Films of the 1990s was the first...


Lara Walsh
Feb 104 min read
‘A Real Pain’ Review: Tourism, Trains, And Trauma
Image by ClickerHappy via Pixabay Jesse Eisenberg’s newest venture, A Real Pain , begins as it ends; in an airport. Amidst the chaos of...

Lalie Kanari
Nov 28, 20242 min read
‘L’amour Ouf’ Review: Between Gangsters And Romance
Set in 1980s France, L’amour ouf  ( Beating Hearts , 2024) is a captivating and emotional adaptation of Thomas Neville's novel Jackie...


Ellie Dempster & Hector Evett
Oct 20, 20244 min read
CONTROL YOURSELF!: Reviewing The Substance And The Phenomenon Of The Comically Grotesque.
★★★☆☆ Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has stood out in recent weeks amongst the crescendo of horror releases leading up to Halloween as a...


OisÃn McGilloway
Jan 17, 20244 min read
‘Queendom’ Review: 'Destructive Appearances Cause Incidents'
Following an artist in her endeavour to fuse art and activism on the streets of Russia with otherworldly costumes, Queendom is not only a...


Ben Lewis
Oct 28, 20234 min read
'The Bikeriders' LFF 2023 Review: A Wild Ride Not All That Wild
In mid-twentieth-century America, the steed became metal. The elegant, slender physique of the horse was replaced by fat metal tyres and...


David Sheldon
Sep 30, 20234 min read
‘El Conde’ Review: Amusing Vampire Satire Flies Too Close To The Sun
The central idea posed by El Conde (2023), the latest work by Chilean director Pablo LarraÃn, reads almost like an insane conspiracy...


Ariana Nazir
Aug 17, 20234 min read
‘Barbie’ Review: Barbie Girl Finds Out Life Is Not So Fantastic
With the build-up of ingenious marketing and an impressive cast, people have flooded the cinemas in pink to celebrate this cinematic...


Eloise Wright
Jun 5, 20192 min read
Sasha Polak's 'Dirty God' does not want your pity, but rather wants to widen your perspe
The world needed this film. From the first few magnetic minutes, Sasha Polak’s Dirty God grabs hold of you, long after the credits have...
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