Content warning: This article contains discussions on eating disorders. Body of Water, the first time feature and directorial debut of Lucy Brydon, is a quiet, sombre gem in this year’s…
When it comes to high school movies about teenage girls, you might feel like you’ve seen it all before. Bickering between cliques, the race towards their first significant sexual experience,…
Gemma (Imogen Poots) is a teacher. Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) is a gardener. They’re a couple – a happy one. And, as happy couples do, they’ve started looking for their first…
As Sarah (Eva Green) puts her daughter Stella (Zélie Boulant) to bed, they go through the motions of their routine. ‘First degree of separation’, the mother says before kissing Stella…
Too often on screen, plus size women are side characters in a thin protagonist’s story. They end up disregarded, two dimensional, and are often doused in diet culture messaging. Thankfully…
Right at the beginning of Plus One, Jack Quaid’s Ben hits the nail on the head when it comes to the often nightmarish process of growing older and hitting life’s milestones…
Just like the tune that Black Canary (aka. Dinah Lance, played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell) sings in the opening act of Birds of Prey, the Gotham we’ve known in the DCEU up…
Horse Girl opens with a conversation between Sarah (Alison Brie) and her crafts store colleague Joan (Molly Shannon) about ‘DNA N U’, a service that tells you where in the world…
It’s almost a century since the Oscars began. Despite its best efforts to diversify, including inviting swathes of new members to join the Academy, the biggest awards ceremony in the cinematic calendar…
Say My Name begins as you might expect. Two strangers are getting hot and heavy in a hotel room, when the woman asks the man to do as the title suggests….
A film that feels sadly left out of the awards conversation is Jordan Peele’s second feature Us, a landmark in the film calendar back in March. It had all the visionary stamps…
Welcome to Fatness In Film, a new monthly column analysing examples of fat representation and body diversity on screen. Positive depictions of fat bodies are hard to find, but Shrill is a recent…
Several times during Bombshell, Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) is accused of being a feminist. She rebukes the suggestion every time; “I’m not a feminist, I’m a lawyer”. #MeToo and Time’s Up…
For Karen Gillan’s directorial debut The Party’s Just Beginning, she leaves behind the fantastical worlds of Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy, and heads back to her Scottish roots. She stars as Liusaidh,…
The sorority slasher is back. We’re still in the Greek system, but with a decidedly feminist spin for this latest adaptation of Black Christmas directed by Sophie Takal and starring Imogen Poots. Click…
In 2019, the Townsend Agency has gone global. There are Angels and Bosleys all over the world, using their female allure to do the work that law enforcement can’t. A…
Adapted from Suzanne Collins’ wildly successful trilogy of books, The Hunger Games movies have become modern day staples in the arena of young-adult stories set in a dystopian future. High concept, with…
For the first chunk of Last Christmas, self-proclaimed hot mess Kate (Emilia Clarke) is constantly dragging a big, battered suitcase along behind her. Flitting from the bed of a one night…
Around halfway through Zombieland: Double Tap, Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus says “I don’t want to toot my own horn”. It’s in reference to his ‘rules’ for surviving Zombieland – a quirk that…
Major Roy McBride is good at compartmentalising. Becoming orphaned (or so he thinks) at a young age, his wife leaving him, almost plummeting to his death from the International Space…
(This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s Sense8 – you have been warned!) Netflix has come under fire recently for its tendency to giving a platform to progressive, inclusive and boundary-pushing…
If there’s one thing that ‘Orange Is the New Black’ has taught us, it’s that not everybody gets a happy ending. Throughout the six previous seasons of this iconic, sometimes…
Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student living in London in the early 1980s. She wears oversized shirts, carries an Olympus camera round her neck at parties, and…
(Warning: the below contains mild-ish spoilers for Amazon Prime series ‘The Boys’.) Amazon’s new series The Boys imagines an America where superheroes walk among humans, and capitalism has turned them into money-making…
Say what you like about Tom Cruise – he knows how to make a damn good action movie. The man is 57 years old and last year starred in Mission: Impossible…
Warning: contains mild spoilers for Euphoria, but only for Kat’s storyline. Promise. The premise for Euphoria feels like any other teen show: an ensemble of characters from varying cliques (popular girls, jocks…
I used to fucking love New Girl. I loved it’s manic-pixie-dream-ness, even though I knew I should know better. I loved it’s offbeat humour. I loved Nick Miller. Actually, I…
A night out has, to me, always felt like putting on a show. Like a theatre performer, you add layers of lotions, colours and kohl before stepping out into the…
Once in a while, a film comes along that reminds you why you love movies so much. And sometimes, it’s from where you least expect it – no franchise, no…
What makes a family? Is it blood? A birth certificate? Or is it who you choose to call your brothers, your sisters, and your parents that matters? This is a…
