Usually, the beginning of a new year brings hope, people get to make fresh starts, the days get slightly sunnier as spring is in sight. That is until awards season takes place and we are swiftly reminded that there is … Continue reading 2020 Alternative Film Awards
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller) Composed out of unseen, 70mm archive footage, the experience of the 1969 moon landing is triumphantly restaged by documentarian Todd Miller. It is one of the most spectacular films of the year, a highly … Continue reading Top 15 Films of 2019 Originally Published in Print February 2020
The landscape of cinema is changing. With the Me Too campaign bringing about significant progress to the way that studios and film productions are being run, as well as increasing the diversity of cinematic representation, a lot of this change … Continue reading 2020 Cinema Predictions Originally Published in Print February 22
Many of my generation went through the most significant developmental phase of our lives over the last decade, and many of us were influenced by cinema and the stories it showed to us. Maybe we fell in love (I did, … Continue reading Formative Films of the Decade Originally Published in Print February 2019
Perhaps no film in the history of cinema has been made with more of my interests in mind than Uncut Gems, the latest thriller from Josh and Benny Safdie revolving around Adam Sandler gambling on basketball games with a soundtrack … Continue reading Uncut Gems A–Z Part 1
In my own world, Love Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003) requires no defence regarding its merits as a brilliant holiday film, especially worth the watch at this time of year. However, the movie has long been the centre of a controversial … Continue reading Love Actually *Actually* is a Good Christmas Movie
Picture yourself attending a cinema screening in the twentieth century: whichever your mind immediately casts itself back to, the image is often the same: a winding maze of a queue, massive buckets of popcorn, a full theatre, crowds streaming through … Continue reading Why It’s Worth Going to the Cinema Originally Published in Print November 2019
I just got back from an excellent run of films at the London Film Festival. Festivals are great in that you can see many films that you wouldn’t have the chance to see, or wouldn’t have heard about otherwise. They’re … Continue reading What to Watch from This Year’s London: TN2’s Film Editor reports on his favourites from LFF 2019 Originally Published in Print November 2019
Nicholas Winding Refn is a precious filmmaker – look too hard and you might puncture the surface; look too carefully and the weight of his images could ring hollow. Few contemporary auteurs have gorged audiences so fully with their own … Continue reading byNWR – a delicious streaming platform of unholy cinema Originally Published in Print November 2019
And Zak loves wrestling and Zak saw The Salt Water Redneck lift men over his head and throw them out of the ring and Zak wanted to lift a man over his head and throw him out of the ring … Continue reading The Peanut Butter Falcon is a Film about Zak Cal Ó Muirí writes a stream-of-consciousness celebration of The Peanut Butter Falcon
Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be a new – and wildly successful – film, series or podcast centered around true crime. Our collective obsession has become a curious psychological and social phenomenon. It’s almost like witnessing a … Continue reading What is our obsession with true crime? Originally Published in Print April 2019