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.
The greatest thing about Saltburn is that we are still talking about Saltburn. Emerald Fennell’s sophomore film was released back in November 2023 in the UK but really hit paydirt when it streamed...
Napoleon said, “I love power. But it is as an artist I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” Ridley Scott is 86 and his power as a...
Let’s get one thing straight, Five Nights at Freddy’s is a well-made bore fest of a horror movie. Based on the point-and-click survival horror game of the same name, director Emma Tami jettisons...
Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon is about The Osage Reign of Terror that stretched its bloody length between 1918 until 1931. During that time dozens of unsolved murders...
Gareth Edwards’ original sci-fi actioner The Creator is a visually stunning blitzkrieg of a film with something to say about America’s post-truth military-industrial complex. Set in the near...
According to the Knapp Commission, apparently there were two kinds of cops in New York in the 1970s. The first were Grass Eaters, police officers who accepted small bribes instead of issuing a...
Did you know that Samuel L Jackson and Yaphet Kotto have each died eight times on the big screen? Unlucky Keith David has perished thirteen times, and the Candyman himself, Tony Todd, has met his...
The old proverb tells us that "it takes a village to raise a child” and in the top secret, government-built town at Los Alamos in the 1940s, that child was the atomic bomb. It may have taken...
Away from the manufactured Zeitgeist of Barbenheimer, one of the most vital, yet criminally underseen environmentalist thrillers of the decade has just dropped on Netflix. The timing couldn’t have...
Thank God for Wham! Just when you thought our septic isle would capsize under the weight of Tory filth, out jumps a joyous life raft of colour, talent, and sheer determination to save the day. Bands...
