Senior Film Writer Mark Farnsworth teaches Film in East London and is currently working on two screenplays, The Mysteries and Fair Access. He also writes the Oh/Cult section for Brokenshark.co.uk.
When you carefully examine the infrastructure connecting the pristine upper middle-class houses of Maybrook, Pennsylvania to the gleaming elementary school where 17 students in the same class have...
At what age should you put aside your childish ambitions, your youthful dreams, your hopes of stardom? When should you admit defeat, admit failure, submit to adulthood? Mid 20s? Early 30s? Never? In...
“The actor is a moving space” Michelangelo Antonioni told his star Jack Nicholson, the actor most identified with the New Hollywood of the 1970s. In The Passenger, Nicholson takes Antonioni at...
In 2002, 28 Days Later rampaged roughshod over our screens in a bloody, ghastly rage, fuelled by 9/11, the Invasion of Afghanistan, the War on Terror, and the growing threat of an illegal war with...
Stanley Kubrick called All That Jazz “the best film I think I’ve ever seen” and on first viewing it’s hard not to get swept away with the tumultuous bombast of Bob Fosse’s...
With Warfare their companion piece to last year’s best film Civil War, directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have delivered something far more brutal and necessary than another war movie — they...
There’s something uniquely unsettling about the idea of being disposable. Not just in a philosophical sense — we all feel replaceable sometimes — but in a literal, zero-hour,...
The Brutalist traverses the industrial might of post-World War II America, straddling the landscape like a vengeful Cronus. This is the America of infinite trains, steel, concrete, glass,...
Welcome to the future. Welcome to 1983. Welcome to Beyond the Black Rainbow. The digital year unfolds like the credits from Alien one number at a time, deliberate and sinister. Videotape is inserted,...
David Lynch’s films are not mere cinematic experiences — they are fever dreams, whispering across the fault lines of reality. To enter Lynch’s world is to surrender to the surreal, to accept...
