“Did You Hear the Rumour?”: The Immersive World of ‘Isle of Dogs’
For a certain type of person, the past month has most likely been filled with Isle of Dogs fever....
Read Moreby Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott | May 5, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
For a certain type of person, the past month has most likely been filled with Isle of Dogs fever....
Read Moreby Sophie Davies | Apr 26, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Spotlight
To listen in to You Must Remember This head to their website or download directly from ITunes You...
Read Moreby Jessie Carpenter | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Women have been raped, abused, and butchered in horror films for as long as permitted by...
Read Moreby Laura Aiton | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Independent films are those which defy the conventions of traditional Hollywood cinema. ‘Smart’...
Read Moreby Stephanie Carta | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Before I read Journey to the West, I was intrigued by the syncretic worldview common to Confucian...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
The BFI is now moving into the second month of a season dedicated to film depictions of female...
Read Moreby Matilda Payne | Oct 23, 2017 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
It is fairly likely that anyone reading this who is familiar with either the animated film The Red...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Oct 20, 2017 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
I first saw Prisoners during its theatrical run back in 2013. It was a day that sticks out in my...
Read Moreby Rory McAteer | Oct 5, 2017 | Big Reads, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film
Blade Runner (1982) and Soviet montage documentary The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) are two...
Read Moreby Sorin Floti | Sep 4, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
Director Mary Harron depicts an extraordinary criminal in American Psycho (2000). He is...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Sep 3, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Over the last few weeks I’ve done quite a few of these Picks of Online Film, and to be honest you...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Sep 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
In accordance with the upcoming seventieth birthday of Stephen King, author extraordinaire, the...
Read Moreby Dr Linda Kiernan | Aug 24, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Interstellar Getty: ‘So you have an idea?’ Murph: ‘No. I have a . . . feeling’. Christopher...
Read Moreby Liam Taft | Aug 10, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
In 2008, PETA released their list of the “Top 10 Movies That Make You Go Meatless.”[1] Featured on...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Aug 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
There’s a theory in horror film circles that there’s two types of fear: horror-fear and...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
As Wonder Woman lasso-of-truthed into theaters on June 2nd, film and comic geeks alike waited with...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Jul 23, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
The horror genre often serves as a crucible for the film industry; countless directors, writers...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 16, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
In its seventy-first iteration this year, the Edinburgh International Film Festival strived to...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance
Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...
Read Moreby Rory McAteer | Jul 9, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“Imamura thought that Western, and especially American, animated films had a mythic quality to...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Jun 18, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
To watch Escape from Tomorrow (2013) is to watch a film that shouldn’t exist. Not that there’s...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Jun 11, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“Laura Dern is one of the all-time great actresses. She can play anything. And she’s just so…a...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Jun 4, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
One of the great joys in life for film buffs is finding those little known gems that flew under...
Read Moreby Katie Goh | Jun 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
“Nope nope nope,”[1] said the tabloids, disgusted, “French horror film Raw has inspired such...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Apr 24, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
For this week’s Pick of Online film, we’ve got a two-for-one special for you: two different films...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Apr 11, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
It seems hard to believe, but Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is now over a decade old. This...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“I was a legendary terror. I was insufferably rude and ill-mannered in the cultivation of my...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 27, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Alfonso Cuarón’s directorial career has already spanned 30 years, in which time he’s made...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Mar 24, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
A few weeks ago Moonlight won an Oscar. You probably heard about it. Or you probably heard more...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 12, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
H.R. Giger is an example of an artist whose work has become incredibly well known without him...
Read Moreby Beth Longman | Mar 6, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
The final image with which we are left in “Fifty shades of Grey” is of Anastasia Steele, hair...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Mar 5, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
I first came across The Babadook (2014) at university; I was studying a course dedicated to the...
Read Moreby Rocco Thompson | Feb 28, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
“As a director, my goal is to be completely open. Just look at how I portray sex in my...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Feb 26, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
This is the first article in a regular series on culturised aiming to give some much deserved...
Read Moreby Nathaniel Gingrich | Feb 8, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Here we are again. Stuck in the doldrums of late January/early February, affectionately known to...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Feb 4, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
Going into T2 Trainspotting, our last glimpses of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, were when we...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jan 31, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
Having tied for the most ever amount of Oscar nominations, La La Land is certainly captivating the...
Read Moreby Jordan Cook | Jan 17, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film
On Sunday 15th January the BBC aired the final installment of the latest (and, potentially, the...
Read Moreby Alex Killeen | Jan 14, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film
The science fiction B-Movies in 1950s America heralded a new way of envisioning American, used in...
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