Review: Promising Young Woman
The male gaze reversed. Our faces screwed up close in crotch shots of men gyrating, dressed in a smart casual nightmare, you know the kind of shit clothes bought for men by their wives or girlfriends...
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.
Film review: The Kid Detective
What is it that makes a slight, inconsequential movie like “The Kid Detective” tap on your bedroom windows to keep you awake at night thinking about it? It’s a shaggy dog story of sorts about...
Review: Rebecca
Director Ben Wheatley doth protest too much. He may want to play down any comparison to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version of, “Rebecca”, but the parallels are too great to ignore. Both rotund,...
Antebellum review: it isn’t enough
In a parallel universe, ”Antebellum” could feature as a perverse reboot of “Charlie’s Angels.” Picture Janelle Monáe’s ultra-confident, Afrofuturist, 21st century sociologist / yoga...
Clockers 25 years on
When Spike Lee took over directorial duties from his friend and mentor Martin Scorsese, his intention for “Clockers” was to put the, “final nail in the coffin” of the Hood genre, the cycle of...
Review: Clemency
Before watching Clemency, director Chinonye Chukwu’s meticulous dismantling of the death penalty in America, it is worth reading President Trump’s infamous 1990s full-page ad in The New York...
Review: Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut
There is a point in Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut when soldier-assassin, Capt. Willard emerges from Col. Kurtz’s compound, shrouded in black, hair like an oil slick, eyes blazing with Nietzschean...
Do we really need to analyze Stranger Things to death?
Stranger Things is back in the zeitgeist again. Here's one from the archives... All aboard the nostalgia train, next stop Netflix and the '80s themed series Stranger Things. We disembark in Hawkins,...
‘The Endless’: Can you find comfort in the UFO death cult you left years ago?
“The Endless” asks one burning question: what would make you travel back to the UFO Death Cult you escaped from a decade before? Surely Jonestown and Waco were warning enough? Is life in 21st...
Phantom Thread is dreamy, atmospheric, and elusive
Fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock glides through his fairy tale life like a pair of his cloth paper scissors; deceptively serene yet sharp and quick to cut to the bone should his wit or peculiar...