Every time Disney green-lights a new live-action sequel of one of its classic films, Tinkerbell takes a drink of poisoned medicine and dies. In an …
The Studio (2025): Hollywood in Autopsy

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Every time Disney green-lights a new live-action sequel of one of its classic films, Tinkerbell takes a drink of poisoned medicine and dies. In an …

Death is a common theme we often encounter in films, but what about the procedure that follows a person’s death? They are usually overlooked as …

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another stands out as an absolute blockbuster of resistance against hatred. It firmly opposes the current wave of franchise-dominated, …

In a conversation about James Gunn’s Superman, one could sit and talk plenty about pacing issues and under-rendered CGI all day – take down as …

As deodorant becomes ever more crucial, parks become more picnic blanket than grass, and grass becomes watered with chicken wine, it is clear that summer …

Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins pins down Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, a documentary/mockumentary/fictional concert film which stands out in the sea of musical biopics as a ‘semiotic experimental’ …

Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins reviews Witches– Elizabeth Sankey’s essayistic film examination of mothers, witches, and the ways we mishandle both. Women often come in threes. The high …

Euan Toh takes stock of the Stoker narrative remake, weighing it up against past versions to see if this year’s take on the vampire can …

Carys Manjdadria-Jenkins analyses the effect of Amanda Rice’s documentary on analogue media and animal extinction, The Flesh of Language. The body of analogue media and …

Sothysen Tuyor reconsiders Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) fifty years after its release and three years after being voted …