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Upload: Our Favourite Amateur Filmmakers

With professional filmmaking equipment cheaper than ever, and the internet taking over the way we consume content: you only need an iPhone and a WiFi connection to make your own long-running TV series or award-winning film nowadays. Here are some of our favourite amateur filmmakers, accessible online. Luisa De la Concha Montes on Don Herzfeldt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IUX0Qy-IDM Don Hertzfeldt started his trajectory at the early age … Continue reading Upload: Our Favourite Amateur Filmmakers

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Review: Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

By Nicole Rees-Williams Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie and is directed by Quentin Tarantino. Upon hearing of TarantinoÔÇÖs direction, I had my preconceptions. His films are often tied to the use of brutal, bloody violence and foul language. Considering this, I was pleasantly surprised by the direction that ‘Hollywood took. The film has a very laid-back … Continue reading Review: Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

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Mindhunter: Serial Killers in Film + TV

David Fincher’s Netflix series,┬áMindhunter, that follows FBI behavioural analysts as they interview and dig deep on serial killers such as Ed Kemper and Charles Manson, has just returned for its sinister second series. This is not the first time Fincher has delved into the minds of the serial killers and the obsessed and with Tarantino’s newest flick similarly set at the time of the Manson … Continue reading Mindhunter: Serial Killers in Film + TV

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Review: Euphoria

By Caleb Carter Jules is the new girl in the sleepy, affluent suburbia of Sam Levinson’s┬áEuphoria. Her hair is dyed a new shade of candy every episode and her constantly circulating sense of style recalls an Alicia Silverstone circa┬áClueless that has been┬ádipped in a vat of Japanese videogame juice: acid-stained and weird. Maybe it is because we view Jules through the enamoured gaze of our … Continue reading Review: Euphoria

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What to Watch on Streaming: August 2019

Hannah Penwright on┬áKingsman: The Secret Service┬á(Netflix) Now that weÔÇÖre well into the summer break, it might be hitting you that youÔÇÖve reached the unthinkable- youÔÇÖve run out of things to watch on Netflix. But all is not lost. Throughout August, Netflix is adding loads of new shows and films for you to watch, including Kingsman: The Secret Service on the 24th. Starring famous faces such … Continue reading What to Watch on Streaming: August 2019

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Movies VS Reality: Summer Edition

We all know that life isn’t like the movies and, after Christmas, no other time of year is more overly-glamorised by films than summer. So, how different does it get?┬á┬á Sam Tilley The typical cinematic summer experience can, by and large, be boiled down to the idea of the central character (or characters) coming-of-age. The use of a summer break to achieve this is a … Continue reading Movies VS Reality: Summer Edition

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Remakes and Representation – Men in Black: International

By Sarah Rawle International is the fourth film in the Men in Black universe, featuring Tessa Thompson as the franchise’s first female lead. Stepping onto the red carpet for the premiere in 2019, Thompson reported spotting a young girl dressed in a black suit and sunglasses, just like her own character in the film. Echoing Gal GadotÔÇÖs recognition as Wonder Woman amongst young girls, this … Continue reading Remakes and Representation – Men in Black: International

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The Films That Made Stranger Things

80’s film and television is laced into┬áStranger Things’┬áDNA, not only stylistically but in brick-laid, foundational plot choices.┬áThe third season of Netflix’s Stranger Things came out a few weeks ago, which means most of us have already steamed through it, so if you’re still itching for more of the same: here is a list of 80’s classics that we think inspired┬áthe hit show. Ella Clucas on┬áThe … Continue reading The Films That Made Stranger Things

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Review: Midsommar

By Caleb Carter Ever needed a good cry? Last year, Hereditary proved to be a runaway success: a candle-lit, black nightmare of familial leashes and compounded trauma that shocked audiences worldwide. This year, the writer/director, Ari Aster returns with Midsommar, a film that evades categorization. Described by Aster as an ÔÇ£adult fairytaleÔÇØ, a ÔÇ£dark comedyÔÇØ and ÔÇ£a breakup movieÔÇØ all at once, the ambitious sophomore … Continue reading Review: Midsommar

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Review: Toy Story 4

By JJ Donoghue Creating a new Toy Story film in 2019 that genuinely meets expectations seems an unenviable, almost impossible task. The franchise is of supreme importance to Pixar, given that the original Toy Story film was PixarÔÇÖs first ever full-length release, whilst audience members and critics alike have long held the series in adoration. It is therefore no small praise to say that Toy … Continue reading Review: Toy Story 4

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What to Watch on Streaming: July 2019

Sam Tilley on Stranger Things (Netflix) Summer comes to Hawkins, Indiana and with it comes the arrival of an all-new, all-American shopping mall that is seriously threatening local businesses. The third installment of the blockbuster Netflix hit Stranger Things drags the franchise into July 1985; only a few days from Independence Day and things are all change within the small, suburban town. When a number … Continue reading What to Watch on Streaming: July 2019

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