‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ (1984): Miyazaki’s Reflection on Ecocide and Imperialism
In 1984 Hayao Miyazaki released Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, his story of a simple agrarian community being dragged into the...
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Ariunzaya Batkhuyag
Dec 5, 20233 min read
‘Anselm’ Review: A Poetic Documentary Told By Its Subject
Is a documentary a true account of reality? Such a question has been at the forefront of documentarian or biographical storytelling....
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Dec 1, 202310 min read
STRAND Magazine Arts and Culture Roundup 2023: Our Top Picks From This Year
Image courtesy of Ian Schneider via Unsplash (licensed under Unsplash License) It's the most wonderful time of the year, as I'm sure the...
Barney Nuttall
Nov 21, 20234 min read
Crap Film Club: Bad Acting, Rubber Monsters and a Great Night Out
Cinephilia is at an all-time high. From Instagram accounts to Letterboxd, everybody is a critic, situating themselves as purveyors of the...
Akane Hayashi
Nov 16, 20236 min read
Same As It Ever Was, 40 Years On; ‘Stop Making Sense’ Returns to Cinemas
Cropped cover of the Talking Heads album Talking Heads: 77 Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Of all the Talking Heads...
Oisín McGilloway
Nov 8, 20234 min read
In Conversation With Matthew Barrington, Curator of 'Jazz On Screen' At The Barbican
Festival Curator Matthew Barrington shares the philosophy behind programming ‘Jazz on Screen’, the selection of films screening at...
Amy Everard
Oct 3, 20236 min read
The Historic Tech Of 'Jurassic Park', 30 Years On
As Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) reaches its 30th anniversary, I revisited the classic blockbuster to understand exactly why...
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 Larraín, reads almost like an insane conspiracy...
Oisín McGilloway
Sep 15, 20234 min read
‘Food Coop’: The More Palatable Side Of Food Shopping
In early 2019, Donald Trump hosted a dinner at the White House for the Clemson Tigers college football team after they won the national...
Ellis Riverol
Sep 13, 20233 min read
'Dazed and Confused' At 30: Linklater’s Masterpiece Is As Relevant As Ever
As the summer comes to an end and the new academic year begins, what better film to mark the occasion than Richard Linklater’s 1993...
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