Molly Manning Walker: forging a bold new era for British cinema
A promising new era for British cinema.
Film Archives: 02/2025
‘Nickel Boys’: pioneering a new visual style to work against the trappings of misery porn
A cathartic and transformative technique.
‘True Detective – Night Country’: when Jodie Foster faced the most terrifying scene of her career
This scene even terrified a woman once attacked by a lion on set.
Hear Me Out: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is the worst music biopic of all time
An insult to Freddie Mercury…
“You just read it and decide”: When Christopher Nolan apologised to Florence Pugh for his meagre offer in ‘Oppenheimer’
An acknowledgement of insubstantial writing?
Maxim Coffee: the Japanese commercial that paid Kirk Douglas just to say a single word
Good work if you can get it.
Why Stanley Kubrick’s films filled James Cameron with anticipation: “Can he pull it off and amaze me again?”
A fascination for precision and reinvention.