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Barney Nuttall
Jan 315 min read
The Scala Of Tomorrow: Where Is Cult Cinema Today?
Sticky seats, loud heckling, and the not-so-vague hint of booze. These are the remains of the Scala Cinema for those ever-devoted fans....
Leda Schenke Gonis
Jan 195 min read
‘Imagine the Sound’ At Barbican Cinema: Disdain For The Known
A quick search on Google defines free jazz as an ‘improvised style of jazz characterised by the absence of set chord patterns or time...
Mali Morgan-Doyle
Jan 176 min read
Motherhood, Memory, and Gothic Immortalisation In The 'Eternal Daughter'
‘She stretched out her arms to the shadows and the shadows within the shadow. “They came because I loved them—because I needed them—I...
Barney Nuttall
Dec 20, 20239 min read
In conversation with Crap Film Club
Crap Film Club is a group which meets every month or so to watch a terrible, terrible film and laugh. A lot. It seems like a winning...
Charley Dennis
Dec 13, 20236 min read
‘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...
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....
The Strand Magazine
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...
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