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.
Make no mistake, Mia Goth is a “fucking movie star” and her last outing as Maxine Minx in Maxxxine, Ti West’s exhilarating conclusion to their X trilogy cements that fact in blood, gristle and...
Late in I Saw the TV Glow, Owen — physically diminished, wracked with chronic asthma — still works in a family entertainment centre, all ball pits and insincerity. Owen is peripheral, a flicker...
How do you assail the unassailable? Conquer the unconquerable? Deny the undeniable? Nine summers ago, George Miller unleashed Mad Max: Fury Road and demolished the audience in a firestorm of steel...
A vaginal crevice, deep in New Mexico, gives birth to the celestial night. The universe is woman born and beyond comprehension. We linger on the stars and their infinite stories before gliding back...
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...
