Author: Mark Farnsworth

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...

Lydia Tár is a colossus. She is a self-made maestro, her peerless achievements carefully curated by herself via Wikipedia and an extended interview with Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker Festival. She...

If there was any justice in the world, then not only should Mia Goth be nominated for an Oscar for her titular performance in Pearl she should win hands down. Goth conceived the character alongside...

Emily Benetto has had enough of America’s bullshit. She’s barely existing in Los Angeles, drowning in student debt to the tune of $70,000 and can’t get a well-paid job because of a felony...