Review: House of Gucci
Sometimes you must hold your hands up and just give thanks for A-List stars strutting about in high fashion and hanging on for dear life to their Italian accents before they fly off and voice a Super...
Author: Mark Farnsworth
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.
Dune: “the sheer audacity of megalomaniac filmmaking”
Hundreds of years from now you can imagine Hollywood swallowed by gargantuan sands, forgotten by history, streamed into oblivion. The oppressive rays of the sun blast heatwaves that shimmer and...
Review: The Green Knight
Of the many humiliations faced by Great Britain since deciding to inflict lingchi on ourselves by voting for Brexit, the misappropriation of cultural icons by the Tories and their splinter far-right...
Review: Zola
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Who better than Émile Zola to comment on Janciza Bravo’s new movie and his namesake,...
In The Earth: a frighteningly idiosyncratic tale of the weird and the eerie
The philosopher and celebrated pessimist, Eugene Thacker envisages the earth as, “the-world-without-us”, a world that is both, “impersonal and horrific” and disdainful of human existence....
Review: Wrath of Man
When you think about male British actors in Hollywood, you can pretty much narrow them down into two distinct categories: the thespian and the movie star. The cultured thespians like Laurence Olivier...
Review: Nomadland
There are times in Chloé Zhao’ s Nomadland where Frances McDormand’s face, lined and desperate, wistful and stoic seems to peer in from America’s Dust Bowl past to haunt its recent history....
Review: The Mauritanian
Is there any image in the post 9/11 conspiracy drama genre more ubiquitous than heavily redacted legal files? Those black lines struck through word after word like blocks of thunder smothering all...
Review: Archenemy
Joe Manganiello is Max Fist, a hulking hobo who may or may not be a superhero trapped on Earth and stripped of his godlike superpowers. He gulps and snorts earthbound ambrosia like gut rot whiskey...
Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?
What were you doing in the summer of 1995? The UK was buoyant, just two years away from New Labour’s landslide victory, casting off the yoke of a generation of Tory rule. Tony Blair was leader of...