Review: Nymphomaniac The Director’s Cut
How do you distil 50 years of life into just 5 hours? What unique qualities of the human condition are worth filming and preserving for eternity? How do we select the stories that define our...
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.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron
During the end credits of “Avengers Age of Ultron” the camera swoops majestically around a marble statue of our heroes battling against Ultron and his countless facets. Heroic music rises and...
Review: Lost River
The “Lost River” of the title of Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut is actually a submerged series of towns deliberately drowned to make a reservoir and pump new life into Detroit’s...
Review: John Wick
“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries-for heavy ones they cannot.” Russian mob boss Viggo clearly hasn’t brushed up on his...
Review: Snow In Paradise
Dave is the real face of multicultural Britain; his best friend Tariq is a rapper and his uncle Jimmy is a racist gangster selling overpriced coffee to young professionals by day and cocaine to them...
Review: Inherent Vice
Private detective, professional hippie and arch dope-fiend, Larry “Doc” Sportello looks like The Wolfman on a bad day or like he’s been swilling around on your dinner plate amongst the gravy...
Review: American Sniper
What makes a sniper American exactly? Being on the right side of a fight? Stencilling “The Punisher” logo on your equipment like a real life Frank Castle? Wearing a baseball cap backwards whilst...
Review: Foxcatcher
Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, commented that “the art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” What is more tragic than the forlorn shadow of a fallen athlete...
Review: Birdman
What is it with back-stories? Every self-respecting superhero seems to need one and preferably the darker the better. The origin of this and the origin of that, why can’t they just be? Who said we...
Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Thorin Oakenshield stalks the great halls of Erebor like a Shakespearian king, tragedy draped around his shoulders. This doom-laden cloak threatens to drag the King Under The Mountain into a quagmire...