Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them After the CGI shambles of ÔÇÿThe HobbitÔÇÖ, the endless swathe of Marvel and DC releases, and the largely likeable ÔÇÿStar WarsÔÇÖ sequel, the Harry Potter franchise made its lurch into the age of the reboot this week with ÔÇÿFantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemÔÇÖ. J.K. Rowling had so far focused only on a narrow sliver of the … Continue reading Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Walter IuzzolinoÔÇÖs series on Channel 4 ÔÇô Walter Presents ÔÇô selects the most popular, critically acclaimed television dramas from around the world, allowing anyone with a laptop and Wi-Fi in Britain to falsely feel like they are cultured through watching handpicked shows (such as SpainÔÇÖs Locked Up to Belgian black-comedy thriller The Out-Laws) for free on Channel 4ÔÇÖs streaming service All 4. Each week Sinead … Continue reading Foreign TV Review: Kabul Kitchen
Walter IuzzolinoÔÇÖs series on Channel 4 ÔÇô Walter Presents ÔÇô selects the most popular, critically acclaimed television dramas from around the world, allowing anyone with a laptop and Wi-Fi in Britain to falsely feel like they are cultured through watching handpicked shows (such as SpainÔÇÖs Locked Up to Belgian black-comedy thriller The Out-Laws) for free on Channel 4ÔÇÖs streaming service All 4. Each week Sinead … Continue reading Foreign TV Review: Locked Up
If you know the name Billie Joe Armstrong then itÔÇÖs probably as the frontman of Green Day, the ringmaster of one of the biggest rock bands of the last twenty years. HeÔÇÖs always been engaging in music videos and onstage and even had a stint in Broadway playing St Jimmy in the musical adapted from his own American Idiot album. But a primarily dialogue driven … Continue reading Review: Ordinary World
Quench film editor Sadia Pineda Hameed spoke to director Patrick Shen about his new documentary┬áIn Pursuit of Silence,┬átheir mutual filmmaking idol Nathaniel Dorsky, and┬átracking down film subjects across California. Read our review of the documentary film┬áhere. Quench:┬á So just to start, could you describe what the documentary [In Pursuit of Silence] is about, and why the subject of pursuing silence interested you in the first … Continue reading Interview: Patrick Shen on ‘In Pursuit of Silence’
For┬ásome of us, the endless barrage of Marvel movies risk becoming quite grating; for others, having a new superhero movie every few months is a dream come true. With Doctor Strange┬áyou sense Marvel has aimed to straddle the middle ground between these camps. By recruiting respected actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton to the cause and choosing a more niche comic as inspiration, director Scott … Continue reading Review: Doctor Strange
Walter IuzzolinoÔÇÖs series on Channel 4 ÔÇô Walter Presents ÔÇô selects the most popular, critically acclaimed television dramas from around the world, allowing anyone with a laptop and Wi-Fi in Britain to falsely feel like they are cultured through watching handpicked shows (such as SpainÔÇÖs Locked Up to Belgian black-comedy thriller The Out-Laws) for free on Channel 4ÔÇÖs streaming service All 4. Each week Sinead … Continue reading Foreign TV Review: Magnifica ÔÇÖ70
In 2005, Werner Herzog released Grizzly Man, a film that explores the world of an environmentalist called Timothy Treadwell who lived with grizzly bears at Katmai National Park, Alaska. After living with the wild animals for thirteen years, Treadwell and his girlfriend, Amy Huguenard, were killed by the very thing Treadwell left human civilization for. Like most Herzog films, the film focuses on a singular … Continue reading BFI LFF Review: Lo and Behold with Herzog/Ayoade Q+A
Here at Quench, we are still having S┼Án festival blues. Now we are going through a quiet spell, we thought we would reminisce on such a fabulous weekend. One of the interesting events which took part over the course of the S┼Án festival weekend was the Manic Street Preachers documentary, which was premiered in coordination with S┼ÁnÔÇÖs 10th anniversary celebrations. One of our reviewers, Dillon … Continue reading FILM REVIEW: Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave
Walter IuzzolinoÔÇÖs series on Channel 4 ÔÇô Walter Presents ÔÇô selects the most popular, critically acclaimed television dramas from around the world, allowing anyone with a laptop and Wi-Fi in Britain to falsely feel like they are cultured through watching handpicked shows (such as SpainÔÇÖs Locked Up to Belgian black-comedy thriller The Out-Laws) for free on Channel 4ÔÇÖs streaming service All 4. Each week Sinead … Continue reading Foreign TV Review: Deutschland ’83
On the Milky Road (Na Mlje─ìnom Putu)┬ádir. Emir Kusturica -┬áSerbia On the Milky Road (Na Mlje─ìnom Putu) is a metaphorical film about love and war directed by the internationally recognised, Serbian filmmaker and actor: Emir Kusturica. The film, with a folkloresque essence, tells the story of Kosta (also played by Kusturica), a war-touched, humble and poetic protagonist who works as a milkman in a remote … Continue reading BFI LFF Review: On the Milky Road
During the post-screening Q+A, director Paul Schrader stated that there were too many filmmakers that thought ‘inside the box’, and those that claimed to ‘think outside the box, are actually still in the box’. As such, he chose to have many first time filmmakers (what he calls the ‘post-rules generation’) work on Dog Eat Dog; however he probably needs to realise that basic coherency isn’t … Continue reading BFI LFF Review: Dog Eat Dog
The 60th annual BFI London Film Festival┬áwas an experience to remember. With over 245 films from 74 countries lasting for a duration of almost two weeks, the film festival really has something for everyone. I took the coach from Cardiff to London and stayed overnight in London at a quaint hotel that reminded me something of a Shakespearean set, just to be able to attend … Continue reading BFI LFF Reviews: Houston, We Have A Problem!, Zoology, Noonday Witch
Since appearing at film festivals at the beginning of the year and having been released to U.S theatres over the summer, itÔÇÖs been a long wait for Daniel RadcliffeÔÇÖs flatulent corpse to propel itself to British shores. If youÔÇÖve been following the production of the film at all youÔÇÖll have known about the farting. If not (spoilers!) thereÔÇÖs farting. Continuing his post-Harry Potter reinvention, Radcliffe … Continue reading Review: Swiss Army Man
In Pursuit of Silence is a feature-length documentary from Patrick Shen that┬áaddresses a very necessary topic. It is by no means a piece frustrated at the lack of silence┬áin a modern world full of noise – there is appreciation for the┬áwind rustling through trees, birdsong and even sounds of the city. Rather, it is a┬ámeditation┬áon the ways in which different people seek and experience silence, … Continue reading Review: In Pursuit of Silence
It seems as though the 2010s have been the decade of the movie remake. Revamped versions of classics like Ghostbusters (2016), Point Break (2015) and Carrie (2013) have graced our screens as of late; and newest to join them is Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven. Based on the original film by director John Sturges, which in turn was inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), … Continue reading Review: The Magnificent Seven
This year, the Iris Prize celebrates their 10th anniversary and the milestone of becoming a BAFTA recognised A list festival. The international LGBTQ+ film festival takes place in Cardiff on the 12 -16th October, and will include feature films, shorts and even live music performances and screening introductions from some of the directors. We’re giving you a preview of some of our top picks; you … Continue reading Preview: Iris Prize 2016
Note: Falling face first into mud is the way into a manÔÇÖs heart. Bridget is back. After 15 years, the third instalment┬áin the┬ábeloved┬áfranchise, Bridget Jones’s Baby, has crawled its way to the big┬áscreen. And who would have thought it would still be as funny? Whilst having┬áa typically muddy music festival weekend with her friend, Jones┬á(Ren├®e Zellweger) finds herself having┬áa one night stand with a handsome … Continue reading Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby
With┬áhis latest┬árelease,┬áThe Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn brings us one of the only worthy films to see during this unremarkable summer at the cinema. The film follows 16 year old Jesse (Elle Fanning) who moves to Los Angeles to begin her career as a model. Her young and fresh-faced beauty is her point of privilege in the industry, greatly desired and fetishised amidst the largely┬ánip-and-tuck┬áscene … Continue reading Review: The Neon Demon
On the phone, Bobby’s relative calls to ask if he’s bored of Hollywood already. Bobby responds, ‘I’m kind of half bored, half fascinated’. That is perhaps how I felt watching Caf├® Society. The tale follows Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg), who unsurprisingly comes from a Jewish family residing in New York City. Wanting more from life than just working for his father, he moves to Hollywood to … Continue reading Review: Caf├® Society
