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 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...
When a franchise like The Fast and the Furious reaches double digits in releases and its audience reaches a certain age, cinema loses much of its meaning. Characters become interchangeable, scenes...
40 years is half a lifetime. For some, 40 years is their lifetime. Others never get to see 40 years. Was it really 40 years ago when Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now...
As a kid I would get ill with tonsilitis about once a year and be off school for a fortnight. There was no rhyme or reason for the timing, but my throat would want to suffocate me, I couldn’t...
Never forget how much the super-rich despise you. Never forget that the contempt they hold you in is worse because it isn’t even deliberate. Never forget that they are so out of touch, so insulated...
The film director Akira Kurosawa was often called The Emperor. In Ran, we only need to bear witness to the demonic majesty that depicts the slaughter of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s retinue on the...
Watching The Fabelmans is such a bitter pill to swallow. You’ll love it and loathe it in equal measure. The sheer exhilaration from watching the young Steven Spielberg discover his genius for film...
Set in the American Midwest in 1985, much of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is dominated by an “Airborne Toxic Event” unleashed from a Spielbergian head-on collision between a freight train and...
