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…a space where I share my thoughts, reviews, and reflections on the stories shaping our screens and the culture around them.

Recent Blogs

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    A rhapsodic and romantic film, but also has an undertone of melancholy and inevitability.

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  • The White Crow

    A captivating study of Rudolf Nureyev as a young man with a vital sense of destiny and hunger for artistic expression.

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  • Rebecca

    A beautifully filmed adaptation that could have dug deeper into the destructive consequences of power and jealousy that  are central to Du Maurier's masterpiece.

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  • Who You Think I Am

    A compelling and prescient thriller embodied in the sensual performance of Juliette Binoche.

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  • Parallel Mothers

    Almodovar's latest melodrama about motherhood and the urgency of confronting history.

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  • Night and the City

    The night is tonight, tomorrow night, or any night. The city is London.

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  • Cold War

    Love in a cold climate

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  • Elevator to the Gallows

    Anticipating the new wave

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  • Poetic Realism

    A study of the french cinema of poetic realism - a precursor to the noir genre.

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As part of its season of Hollywood Black listees in Europe, Home in Manchester screened Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950). ​ Primarily acknowledged for virtually inventing the heist genre with the seminal Rififi (1955), and his triumph o
A captivating study of Rudolf Nureyev as a young man with a vital sense of destiny and hunger for artistic expression. The film unlocks the complexities of his drive to realise himself as a dancer and what drove him to abandon his life and culture to
If Beale Street Could Talk is a rhapsodic and romantic film, but also has an undertone of melancholy and inevitability. It is a dreamlike and languid movie which is affecting both viscerally and emotionally. It is a story about love; both romantic
I admire Almodovar’s films for his bold visual style, the labyrinthine plots, his exploration of identity and transformation, and his focus on the empowerment of women. I like how he is clearly influenced by classical Hollywood such as Hitchcoc
“Everything in the world is about sex - except sex. Sex is about power” Oscar Wilde Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca is beautifully filmed with some stand out performances but does not delve completely into the darker centre of Du Maurier&rs
Who You Think I Am is a provocative and prescient drama that weaves the story of a middle-aged woman’s longing for passion and desire with a thriller of mistaken identity. “For people like me it is both the shipwreck and the life raft. W