The latest Spike Lee “Joint” arrived on Netflix on June 12th, off the back of Lee’s 2018 critical success with BlacKkKlansman. Da 5 Bloods is Lee’s return to satirical form with focus on African American GI experience in […]
Black Lives Matter, Covid19 and the Arts: an Interview with BBC Two Channel Controller Patrick Holland
Owen Frost sits down (virtually) with Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC 2, to discuss his channel’s policies regarding Black Lives Matter and the increasing importance of history in public broadcasting. Owen: Hi Patrick, can you […]
Full Stream Ahead: How has the Arts and Culture world coped with Covid-19?
With great Leeds arts community spaces such as Hyde Park Picture House or the Leeds Museums & Galleries temporarily closing due to Covid-19, it is easy for students to remain defeatist, envisioning the creative landscape […]
Extraction Review: What can be salvaged from Netflix’s latest action-packed feature?
In Extraction, ex-Asgardian Chris Hemsworth plays a stoic Australian mercenary, Tyler Rake, flung into a world of crime. Rake’s recruitment is directed by handler Nik (Golshifteh Farahani) and also features warring Indian and Bangladeshi drug […]
European Film Institutions call for the Freedom of Incarcerated Iranian Dissident Director Mohammad Rasoulof
Mohammad Rasoulof, director of the recent There Is No Evil, who was recently incarcerated in Iran, has gained international attention from many filmmakers and institutions since his Iranian jail sentence. Institutions such as European Film […]
Trailer Review: The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s notorious auteur colour palette has once again brushed our screens with the trailer for The French Dispatch or The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (to give its full title) hot […]
The West is not the Best: Will Parasite’s Success be enough to Reinvent the Film Industry?
Owen Frost explores the success of Parasite but why it‘s progress for international films could be lost.
Spoiler Alert! Are Spoilers the Filmmakers Best Kept Secret?
Growing up, I was never too fond of the traditional spoiler. When it appears essential to the plot, for example: in The Film That We Do Not Talk About, The Usual Suspects and Shawshank Redemption, […]
Ken Loach Joins Martin Scorsese’s Avengers: Fighting For The Art of True Cinema
With the ongoing superhero feud shaping up to become hotter than Endgame, British director Ken Loach has teamed up with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola to form the filmmaker Justice League – film auteurs […]
Is Ageism Still a Problem in the Film Industry?
With the release of the most recent Bond film title: No Time To Die, I thought it’d be a good idea to take a look at the recent fear of ageism in the film industry. […]