This week’s animation review comes into the form of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Constantly renowned as the best animated film of the 2010s, Sony gained their first Oscar for Animated Feature for this unique comic book adaptation that saw Disney take a rare defeat at awards season. The film follows the regular Spider-Man lore as… Read More Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
The show that everyone has been talking about at the minute is a series that revolves around chess. The Queen’s Gambit follows female chess player, Beth Harmon, and her quest to become the world’s best chess player period. The show was created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott and based on the 1983 novel of… Read More The Queen’s Gambit
One of the most anticipated films of this upcoming awards season, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is the new film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin. Following the trial of eight men with varying backgrounds who organise protests at the Democratic National Convention to end the Vietnam War. Featuring an all-star cast including Eddie… Read More The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Raindance Film Festival has ended and I can’t believe that this is not my first but second festival. I have managed to watch 7 films that are proof that indie films are still thriving and exciting as ever. Having viewed a selection of films from different countries that explore a variety of topics from identity… Read More Raindance Film Festival 2020 – Roundup
With London Film Festival concluding today and all of my reviews done and dusted, I thought I would write this post to roundup my experience. Being my first film festival, I was so excited to be apart of something I have been a fan of for years. Looking at the lineup, it seemed that there… Read More London Film Festival 2020: Roundup
We love to discuss animation on this site and I thought it’d be a great idea to delve into one of the most exciting American animation studios and it isn’t Disney. This is all about Laika Film Studio, owned by Nike co-founder Phil Knight. Initially known as Will Vinton Studios before being renamed as Laika… Read More Laika Studio: Film Ranking
One of the final films for this year’s London Film Festival comes in the form of Francis Lee’s Ammonite. Written and directed by Lee, the film follows Victorian palaeontologist Mary Anning and her time spent with Charlotte Murchison who would eventually become a palaeontologist herself. Starring Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan… Read More London Film Festival 2020 – Ammonite
Lulu Wang’s second feature is a brilliant insight into a millennial experience on being an immigrant in America and the struggle for identity. Following Chinese-American millennial Billi (Awkwafina), The Farewell travels from America to China as Billi’s Grandma, Nai Nai (Zhao Shu-zhen), falls ill with terminal cancer. What throws an even heavier spanner in the… Read More The Farewell (2019)
Marielle Heller is one of the most exciting filmmakers working in the industry. Although she is not a household name in the mainstream yet, she has proven her talent and range in the three feature films she has directed so far. All three are adaptations of different mediums which also shows Heller’s skill as a… Read More Marielle Heller: Film Ranking
Lynne Ramsey’s You Were Never Really Here follows hitman Joe who specialises in retrieving young girls from the clutches of underground paedophiles and trafficking. He is tasked by a New York senator to retrieve his daughter, Nina (Ekaterina Samsonov), who has been kidnapped and to eliminate those who took her by the most violent means… Read More You Were Never Really Here (2017)
