Film reviews, TV reviews and tales of film making and festivals
Films about death that seek profundity run the obvious risk that bleakness will sink things below an audience’s limit for an emotional dive. Those concerning assisted suicide, perhaps doubly so. In Your Arms, a Danish […]
As if playing the leading role of the cantankerous old crow Miss Shepherd (aka The Lady in the Van) in both a West End theatre production and a Radio 4 adaptation was not enough, Dame […]
Day For Night are a London based independent film company promoting cultural diversity and accessibility. They work with film festivals, filmmakers and audiences to enable broader access to visual culture. Their interest also expands to […]
Vaudeville was the nest that birthed cinema, as Edison and the Lumiere brothers moved from kinetoscopes to audience projections in vaudeville houses. In return, film and television would dethrone staged variety entertainment, turning Orpheum theatres […]