James Carlstrand reflects on last year’s indie hit as the film garners nominations during this ongoing awards season. There is a moment in Past Lives where our …
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James Carlstrand reflects on last year’s indie hit as the film garners nominations during this ongoing awards season. There is a moment in Past Lives where our …
James Carlstrand reviews Craig Gillespie’s big screen adaptation of 2021s viral GameStop story. Dumb Money will undoubtedly receive much comparison to The Big Short, after all both …
James Carlstrand summarises a lively and insightful workshop with The Telegraph’s film critic Tim Robey On a cold Thursday evening back in November the Film …
Mayra Nassef, FilmSoc Journal’s International Film Festival Rotterdam correspondent, interviews Helena Stefánsdottir, Icelandic director of Bon Appetit (2011) and her new feature Natatorium (2024). “Natatorium” …
In a sunlit corner of Wonderville Raindance headquarters, clad in signature sunglasses sat Elliot Grove, the visionary founder of Raindance Film Festival. Alexia Mihaila from …
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 …
Will Palmer reviews Scala!!!, a documentary exploring the heyday of the infamous Scala cinema, and how its eclectic programming broke boundaries and shaped future creatives
Alexia Mihaila and Aryan Tauqeer from the UCL Film & TV Society Journal caught up with Rowan Woods, a key programmer at the BFI London …
Mint Chinese Film Festival 2024, taking place from February 1 to 4, is one of the most influential film festivals for Chinese cinema, casting attention …
James Carlstrand reviews Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated satirical feature, American Fiction, measuring up its playful attack at the flawed publishing industry. Spoiler Alert : American Fiction’s …