Our latest featured artist Katie Craven talks about cuts, connections and collaboration, and how it’s ok to fear the future… Artist and illustrator Katie Craven is incredibly friendly and smiley when we meet for this...
Ahead of FACT’s screening of a pair of Peter Cushing-starring Dr Who films, Adam Scovell investigates their enduring appeal… There’s something distinctly pleasurable about the two 1960s Doctor Who films. They’re completely farfetched,...
Adam Scovell gets to grips with Bicycle Thieves, arguing the classic is unfairly burdened by its era… There are certain films that come with a great deal of baggage; a constant array of...
Film Podcast #19: Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty by The Double Negative on Mixcloud DW Mault and special guest Adam Scovell review Steven Spielberg’s biographical drama Lincoln, and Kathryn Bigelow’s military thriller Zero...
Adam Scovell takes a second look at this definitive horror film and finds subversion, satire and an underrated director … Though its screening is more of a tie-in to science and technology than...
Adam Scovell on The Night of the Hunter, a directorial debut of rare quality… There are certain curios in cinema; films that are one offs, unique, which leave a desire for more. Charles...
Adam Scovell finds reasons to be optimistic about the Independents Biennial at Fallout Factory… There’s a wealth of independent shows and projects around this year’s Liverpool Biennial. With the official festival itself being...
Before the UK premier performance of A Crimson Grail back in September, we sat Samizdat’s Andrew Ellis down with legendary composer, Rhys Chatham… For the launch of Liverpool Biennial 2012, Rhys Chatham, legendary...
Adam Scovell previews The Birds, one of Hitchcock’s most enigmatic offerings… Alfred Hitchcock’s later films tipped the pendulum more into the genre of horror than the rest of his works. The likes of...