Adapted from Austin Wright 1993 novel Tony and Susan, Nocturnal Animals marks the return of Tom Ford in his directorial guise after a seven year absence. Ford’s second foray into directing sees him taking on an oeuvre which at times seems almost unfilmable. The film is a dense piece with a triple stranded narrative, which owes as much to Hitchcock as it does to the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk. It is…
Read More10 FILMS TO START THE YEAR
2016 might have been a year of uncertainty, celebrity deaths and political upheaval but cinematically this has been one of the strongest years ever. So while people pick their 2016 top 10s, let’s take a look at some of the most anticipated film releases of 2017. Silence Martin Scorsese’s long awaited adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s book by the same name recounts the plight of Catholic persecution in seventeenth century…
Read MoreTV Review: The OA
Review by Stuart Houghton A NetFlix Original series about a mysterious girl who arrives in the lives of some small town kids, seemingly in possession of strange powers and on the run from a mad scientist? Did Stranger Things prove so popular that NetFlix is now churning out identical shows in the hope that nobody will notice? The OA, which sidled onto the on-demand service’s December schedule with almost no preceding hype,…
Read MoreThe Pass: Director John Donnelly
Review By Linda Marric Adapted by John Donnelly from his critically acclaimed play, and directed by Ben A Williams, The Pass is first and foremost a Russell Tovey vehicle. For those unfamiliar with the play, the film tells the story of a closeted football player Jason (Tovey), in an episodic narrative which spans 10 years of his life. The story takes place mostly inside and is told in…
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