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.
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...
Thirty years on, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is still the film that haunts me the most. I can feel it scratching behind my eyes, screaming in my ears and shrieking at my soul. Consciously, I’m...
We’re hurtling through fire in 1933, the hyperspace of hell circling a forlorn automobile, winding its way to the Hollywood Hills in search of false salvation. Inside, a young Norma Jean watches...
As my mood fluctuates wildly between hatred, despair, and grief due to wretched state of the UK under this despicable Tory government, I have increasingly found myself drawn to the horror genre on...
There are many indelible images in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future but none so tortuous as Viggo Mortensen’s performance artist, Saul Tenser, contorted on a feeding chair grown from bone...
Harper Marlowe, the protagonist in Alex Garland’s astounding third feature, Men, has one of those names that conjures up an array of literary possibility. Could she be part Harper Lee, observing...
The collective eyes of the cinema-going public may be held aloft (quite rightly) watching Tom Cruise fly jets for real in Top Gun: Maverick but another, more caustic film has made its way onto VOD...
