Diego Aparicio reviews Carla Simón’s fresh biographical drama. This review originally appeared on the author’s film blog, Observancy. It has been slightly modified. Estiu 1993 (“Summer 1993”) has made quite a splash: Carla Simón’s autobiographical […]
Pihla Pekkarinen takes a look at the biographical film of a queer art icon. “Tom of… Tom of Finland.” “Tom of Sweden would sell more.” In its portrayal of a […]
Editor Chloe Woods examines Angela Robinson’s biographical drama. Sometimes history defies the limits of creative imagination: and this is the case with the creator of Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, first […]
Sam Asher reviews Iannucci’s period comedy. The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci’s latest comedy, follows the power vacuum in the Soviet Union caused by said death in 1953. As is […]
Calvin Law examines a common television archetype through two cult shows. (WARNING: spoilers for Stranger Things and Stranger Things 2, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return) In many ways, David Lynch and Netflix could […]
Alexandra Petrache reviews the second seasonal comedy instalment. “A day without laughter is a wasted day,” my Thai fortune cookie said on Saturday night. Fantastic, I thought. Good thing I […]
Raphael Duhamel reviews David Fincher’s thrilling Netflix series. “It’s always the mother. They all have a crazy, angry mother.” Mindhunter is a Freudian’s dream. Set in Virginia in 1977, the […]
Alex Dewing examines Ofir Raul Graizer’s emotional debut. Israeli writer-director Ofir Raul Graizer isn’t holding back in his poignant feature debut: The Cakemaker tackles everything from sexuality to religion. As the first […]
Xin Yi Wang runs through a few films from the London East Asian Film Festival, which ran from the 19th to the 29th of October. Names such as Akira Kurosawa, […]
The first of our co-hosted Central DOCS Club screenings with Picturehouse Central saw ’78/52′, the story of Hitchcock’s famous shower scene, screened and followed by a discussion. Katie Jackson continues […]