Thomas Round analyses the legacy of the famed British spy James Bond in the context of his reputation, his origins, and the myths surrounding him. …
‘No Time To Die’: A Canonical Incongruence
2022
Something Male in Every Woman and Female in Every Man: Gender and the Cronenbergian Body
The space occupied by the body as an inseparable component of the built environment has existed since perhaps the very inception of cinema as a …
‘Ticket to Paradise’ (2022) – Review
Madeline Choi reviews the newest rom-com tropes following flick that will make you laugh and space out to ‘exotic’ lands. Another classic feel-good formulaic rom-com, …
BFI Flare 2022: ‘Passion’ Review
Mara Dinu reviews Maja Borg’s daring documentary about the ties between the worship differences in sex-movements and religion. Everybody experiences the world uniquely and relationships …
LIFF 2022: ‘Urf’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews Geetika Narang Abbasi’s Urf, a documentary following the lives of three Bollywood-star look-alikes. In 2016, the project that director Maneesh Sharma had …
LIFF 2022: ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s cinematic letter to the city of Kolkata. Earlier last year, the incumbent Bharatiya …
‘Better Call Saul’ : Final Season Review
Aadesh Gupta reviews the final season of the crime and legal drama television series Better Call Saul and its bond to its predecessor Breaking Bad. …
LIFF 2022: ‘Do Baaraa’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews LIFF’s opening night film Do Baaraa, an Anurag Kashyap mystery drama. “Gangs of Wasseypur has been my greatest undoing” This was Anurag …
FOMI 2022: ‘Sudden Light’ Review
Aryan Tauqeer reviews director and UCL alumni Sophie Littman’s Cannes-contending experimental short. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal text Sculpting in Time, there is a deliberation upon …
Notes on Modern Posters
I was recently commuting on the London Underground and occupying myself, as I usually do, by listening to music. My music taste is broad but …