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.
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Fighting in built-up areas, street fighting, urban combat, call it what you will, is the real horror of modern...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Klaus Kinski is alive and well, and living under Nicholas Cage’s skin. In "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New...
Its official: Great Britain is to blame for everything: bad teeth, football violence, Simon Cowell and now the zombie apocalypse. Yep, good old fashioned mad cow disease triggers America’s latest...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. The gangster travelogue continues its global tour by touching down in the mean streets of Jaffa with “Ajami.”...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Ken Wardrop’s first...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Ever wished you’d never picked up the phone? Just let it ring off and go back to bed none the wiser and let the...
There has been one successful remake of an Alan Clarke film, Gus Van Sant’s 2003 film “Elephant.” Transporting the sectarian killings of Northern Ireland to high-school slayings in America was...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Lolita." After “Eyes Wide Shut” there would never be another Stanley Kubrick film. There would be no more...
Life at the pram-face is tough for 15-year-old Mia. She’s no Wallace and certainly no Farrow but another damaged Essex girl living in the shadow of the A13. Kicked out of school, isolated from her...
“District 9” proves that nothing unites the human race better than a good old-fashioned alien invasion. We forget our own racial hatred for two minutes to gang up on slimy spacemen, exploit their...
