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Spoilers ahead! Poor Things (2023) is a four-time Oscar award-winning film directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who has previously found fame with his films Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), and perhaps more notably, The Favourite (2018), with stars Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone. Partnering with Emma Stone once again, Poor Things follows…
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Netflix’s hit German sci-fi series Dark explores the consequences of repeating our forebearers’ mistakes, and the devastating effects of trying to break free of that cycle. SPOILER WARNING for all three seasons of Dark (2017-2020). Content warning: mentions of suicide, death and grief. Season One: Missing Children Season one of Dark begins with pain. We…
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Major spoilers for Star Wars Rebels! Please note I wrote this post before watching Ahsoka (2023), so I do not mention that show here. Introduction Star Wars Rebels is my favourite Star Wars TV show and one of my favourite shows of all time. I certainly didn’t expect it to be when I first started…
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Succession is a unique television show, not just for the ways in which it seamlessly blends the all-too-real issue of systemic abuses of power by rich white men in corporate America with outrageous and cringe-inducing comedy, but also in how it portrays every single character as unlikeable to some degree. While I’m sure the average…
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The following review contains spoilers for The Woman King (2022). The Woman King is an emotional epic tale of home, family, and belonging that confronts the morally bankrupt slave trade from an African perspective. Set in the 1820s, during a truly shameful time in global history, the West African Kingdom of Dahomey is at a…
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From first-time director Mimi Cave, Fresh is the brand-new deliciously dark romcom of 2022. It takes traditional story beats such as the meet cute, the unlucky-in-love white female protagonist, the black best friend, the Prince Charming, and twists them into a horrifying anti-meat-eating tale of misogyny. With the opening titles only appearing half an hour…
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Social media is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This new form of media literally only exists in a virtual space, yet we are physically impacted by what it produces; whether it’s via news, information, entertainment, opinions, advice, tutorials or trends, our lives are continually influenced by social media, directly or indirectly. Social media…
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Before I get into my analysis of Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, 1985) and My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991), each pioneers of queer cinema in their own right, I want to discuss my definition of ‘queer’ in this filmic context. Essentially, queer space here represents transience. In comparison to LGBT cinema, often interested…
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Spoilers throughout. Saint Maud is a film that leaves you speechless. In director Rose Glass’s jaw-dropping feature film debut, themes of religion, obsession, possession, devotion, loneliness, mental illness, and madness are tackled in a mere 84 minutes as we follow Maud (Morfydd Clark), a young nurse who has recently found religion to cope with her…
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The long-awaited A Quiet Place Part II is finally here. After a year of Covid-related delays, audiences can now visit cinemas and enjoy the big screen experience – and A Quiet Place Part II is definitely not made for watching on a laptop. Whilst the sequel to 2018’s hugely successful A Quiet Place is by…
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Thoughts of a Film Student 