It’s nearly Easter again, and for me that’s synonymous with my yearly rewatch of Jesus Christ Superstar, specifically the 1973 film version directed by the criminally underrated Norman Jewison. Despite the title, this is not necessarily a Christian film, nor do you need to be Christian to enjoy it (I’m not, and it’s one of […]
On a rather damp Sunday evening I went down to the Cameo to watch the 30th anniversary screening of Orlando. I had wanted to watch Orlando for some time, having heard it been hailed as “a subversive history film”, “a feminist masterpiece”, “one of the most important queer films”, and more. However, whilst I expected […]
This article contains film spoilers. CW: suicide, rape I am not entirely sure what I watched when I watched Under the Silver Lake, but one thing I can say for sure was that there were a lot of boobs. This film hopes to comment on misogyny, referencing pop culture and alluding to other great films, […]
The dreamscape that is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) takes its audience on a bittersweet journey of love, nostalgia and regret. The film progresses to the ugly ending of Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clemintine’s (Kate Winslet) relationship, where they both, separately, decide to impulsively undergo a memory-erasure procedure. Focusing on the regret and […]
I am obsessed with But I’m a Cheerleader. I’ve seen it three times, which might not sound like much, but I only first watched it in February 2022 (and I’m not an avid repeat viewer).The irreverence of its satire, the tenderness of its representation, the playfulness of its design – this movie is supremely special. It’s a breath […]
Comedy films, in the true sense of the genre, don’t really exist anymore. Sure, we get films which are funny or films which have jokes in them, but the days of films offering multiple laughs a minute are long gone. Despite what some people might tell you, it has nothing to do with “wokeness”, “cancel […]
On June 27th 2015 Elizabeth Berkeley received a standing ovation during her introduction to a screening of Showgirls. She describes the “magical full-circle moment” of experiencing “the sweetness of a screening with a crowd that embraced it”, which infamously was not the case upon the release of Showgirls in 1995. This feels like a cathartic […]
For many of us, our most vivid memories of fear come from childhood. When we have no understanding of the world, anything has the power to horrify, and even innocuous household items can strike terror into our hearts. This is one of the many reasons that Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 cult hit Hausu provides such a […]