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Updated on 23 November 202523 November 2025Essays Recommendations

The Last Dance (2024)

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 …

Updated on 18 February 202518 February 2025Essays Retrospectives

Salt of the Earth (1954): The Ultimate Red Scare Counter-Narrative

Edward Lahner looks back on Herbert J Biberman’s Salt of the Earth, telling the remarkable tale of its production and reception history from the McCarthy …

25 September 202425 September 2024Essays Retrospectives

Gummo (1997)

Anya Somwaiya reviews Korine’s debut feature, Gummo, a mood board for the decades that followed. Scotch taped wall bacon. Albinos and drunkards. Girls with noeyebrows …

Updated on 19 February 202418 February 2024Essays Films

On Melodrama, and Why It Must Endure

Aryan Tauqeer discusses the position of the melodrama in the contemporary cinema landscape, the political history of the genre in Old Hollywood and how the …

Updated on 15 January 202415 January 2024Essays

A Tale of Two Decades: Cinematic Conversation between Jonze and Coppola

Oscar McFie Lyons draws the connections between Spike Jonze’s Her and Sofia Coppala’s Lost in Translation, unearthing what the interplay between the once married pair …

Updated on 15 January 202415 January 2024Essays Retrospectives

The X-Files: Fight the Future “Neonoirvember” at Prince Charles Cinema

Sub-Editor Mayra Nassef takes a look at the cultural impact of genre-bending The X-Files following its 30th anniversary screening at the Prince Charles Cinema, asking …

Updated on 18 February 202431 December 2023Essays Film Reviews

LFF 2023: ‘Ferrari’ Review

Aryan Tauqeer reviews Ferrari, Michael Mann’s meditative drama about the titular automobile magnate’s famial and professional strife, and his racers that stand at the intersection between the two.