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.
Imperium not only sideswipes you with its opening liberal quotation, but then sits you in the back of a car with Harry Potter dressed as an FBI agent. He waits nervously for a white van to deliver a...
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,...
Let’s begin, at the end of the 1980s and the world of The Firm. The beautiful game is being defiled by the English disease, pumped around the body politic by Football Specials and Intercity trains,...
What better movie is there than Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut documentary to prematurely break my sabbatical from film criticism? Truffaut’s 1962 in depth interviews with Hitchcock took over...
“Der Nactmahr’s” early swimming pool set piece exerts an audacious ear drubbing of sub-bass pressure, a sonic bombardment of ultra-sleek techno that threatens to strobe the viewer out of their...
“Straight Outta Compton” explodes with a blank screen, helicopter blades and media chatter. We could be starting another zombie apocalypse or alternatively listening to a multi-layered, cinematic...
In the live action adaptation of the popular manga series “Attack On Titan” the scraps of flesh that make up the last surviving members of humanity have been cowering in fear behind three...
Former Beta Band member turned director John Maclean’s debut feature, “Slow West” looks and feels like a random train of thought, a glorious meandering diversion from “The Assassination of...
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” Looking into the eyes of Evan’s dying...
There is a scene in the 1993 German war film “Stalingrad” where a bronzed platoon of elite storm troopers victorious from the lightening battles in the West and North Africa confront their dead...
