‘Bonjour, Paris!’: Maybe that’s why the French hate us
Did you know, if you Google ‘why do we romanticise Paris?’, that the most common...
Film Movements
An Ode to Teenhood
Coming-of-age films serve as a realistic yet dramatised overview of what life in high school...
Can Film Bring a Divided World Together?
Artistic expression has the power to take the world and its people into an era...
Cinema Meets Visual Arts: Filmmaking According to Banksy
Since its debuts, cinema has always welcomed and even encouraged the collaboration with visual artists,...
Contemporary Silent Films
John Krasinksi’s aptly named The Quiet Place has been described as ‘a silent film’ by...
Emptying Space: Contemporary Slow Cinema and the Work of Scott Barley
In a Lisbon slum a woman arrives to mourn the death of her long absent...
Exploring the influences and impact of mumblecore
Emerging out of the independent aesthetic of 1990s American indie cinema, mumblecore described a newfound...
Female protagonists do not a feminist film make: how Lars von Trier let slip his misogyny
In the recent revelations regarding harassment and abuse in the Western film industry, there are...
Fifty Years of Bond Girls and The Male Gaze
Widely celebrated as the saviour of German Cinema, the German New Wave ponders division, rhetoric...
If you haven’t already noticed… Welcome to the Age of Recycled Entertainment!
Have we brought this age of revivals and remakes with the industries of Film and Television upon...
