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.
During the assault on The White House in the riveting climax to Alex Garland’s Civil War, soldiers fight in the narrow corridors of America’s sullied power. Automatic fire resonates and echoes as...
Matt Dillon was God, the early 80s his Valhalla. A denim deity who ruled the Brat Pack with a leather fist and a blood red bandana, Francis Ford Coppola’s dangerous teen idol, Dally in The...
The voice is pure guttural bass delivered from the void, thousands of years in the future. Every one of your 37 trillion cells shudders from the vibration. Sonic dread violently travels from the...
Jonathan Glazer’s, The Zone of Interest exists as a title before slowly dissolving to a black screen, a lingering Kubrickian monolith transporting us back through time as only cinema can. Gothic...
Early on in Zak Hilditch’s doomsday scenario, These Final Hours, we know the Earth has had it and there is no way back. No last-minute nuclear option, no underground bunkers and certainly no...
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...
