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.
Robert Pattinson has always had something dark and off kilter skulking behind his matinee idol looks. His teeth are vaguely reptilian, sharpened discreetly to resemble Willem Dafoe, fashioned to...
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” John Lydon’s famous last words whilst sitting on the stage staring at the crowd at the climax of The Sex Pistols concert at The Winterland Ballroom...
The greatest pleasure of the many pleasures found in Zach Cregger’s 2026 reboot of Resident Evil is the hilarious and mundane running commentary of millennial medical courier, Bryan played with...
What would happen if you heard the voice of God, but it came through a vessel you considered unworthy? Not merely unworthy, but vulgar, childish and offensively ordinary. Would you fall to your knees...
Kurt Russell’s eyes are wired. Those baby blues are ringed with red, the Disney child paranoid, sweating booze and armed to the teeth. Those jump cuts are making us anxious from the off. We’re...
Waiting with my daughter in the post-industrial foyer of Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, for Game of Thrones: The Mad King to start I contemplated my own relationship to fandom and...
If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis....
When we were children, flickered in light and held in thrall to the shuddering genius of Ray Harryhausen’s mythical beasts in Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans we could only dare to...
To watch Sky Documentaries’ Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard is to plug your wet brain directly into a high-voltage socket of pure, unadulterated 1980s chaos, only to realise with a sickening...
The opening of The Hidden has a sombre, mournful quality to it. Through black and white CCTV we quietly observe the comings and goings of the Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. The bank’s customers...
