Nik Glover deconstructs Terry Gilliam’s dystopic bureaucratic nightmare, Brazil… On the surface, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985) has nothing whatsoever to do with its new world economic powerhouse namesake, which perhaps makes it an odd choice to be...
This week, DW Mault reviews Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret, and discusses the Toronto International Film Festival announcements. Hosted by director and cineaste DW Mault, with special guests Adam Baird and Laura Brown. Wednesday 1...
Nietzsche’s life would never be the same following his experience with The Turin Horse. What did Adam Scovell make of it? Béla Tarr isn’t a director who likes to make things easy. His...
In our inaugural film podcast, DW Mault reviews Tony Kaye’s Detachment, starring Adrien Brody, and City of God director Fernando Meirelles’ new film, 360. Hosted by director and cineaste DW Mault, with special...
This Friday sees the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. To get in the mood, FACT screen the first two of the trilogy tomorrow… In 1939, a new character referred to...
Adam Scovell takes a look at Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard’s noirish tale of man versus machine… As part of The Language Circle events currently inhabiting the timetable of Urban Strawberry Lunch, the collective are...
In Quatermass and the Pit, the Hammer Horror studio showed it was capable of much more than dodgy special effects and ripped bodices, argues Adam Scovell… There’s a certain assumption, understandably perhaps, surrounding...
With Bottle Rocket kicking off a Wes Anderson season at FACT, DW Mault reassesses his debut feature… Authorial canons are the rocks we rest our beliefs on. With this in mind, Wes...
Selected promised to ‘bring together some of the best emerging film and video artists from the UK’. Let us be the judge of that… Last night we went along to Selected II, hosted...