Freelance Copywriter & Journalist | Deputy & TV Editor at FILMHOUNDS Magazine | TV Features Writer at Looper | Film Reviews Editor at The Indiependent
Why Bound is the perfect queer Valentine’s film
The Wachowskis’ 1996 neo-noir starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly is an enduring, subversive romance.
The Essex Serpent showcases Essex, but not as you know it
Fresh off the back of a spate of unique, original programming including Severance, Pachinko and Roar, Apple TV+ makes its debut outing in the realm of historical period drama with The Essex Serpent.
Adapted from Sarah Perry's 2016 novel of the same name, the narrative charts the story of recent widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), who uproots her London life and heads to the Essex coastline upon hearing rumours of a mythical serpent preying on a local community.
Its creative team, spearheaded ...
Everything we know about the Barbie movie
After 21 years of animated Barbie movies, a live-action adaptation is making its way to the big screen.
Warner Bros. is officially a Barbie girl, and the internet is already living in a Barbie world. Twitter and TikTok have been overrun with real-time coverage of the film’s shooting, with principal photography beginning in England in March 2022. Current filming is taking place across Los Angeles, with appearances from prominent cast members across Venice Beach stirring up plenty of public interest.
Are queer women well represented in gaming?
With LGBT+ characters appearing in hits like Life Is Strange and The Last Of Us, gaming’s toxic side can still hold back representation.
Whoever we are and whatever we do, we all deserve to see ourselves represented in the things we love. For LGBTQIA+ gamers, a healthy amount of genuine representation can be hard to come by. While groups such as queer men and trans people have an equal amount of depiction issues, queer women’s inclusion in the gaming world presents an extra challenge. As gami...
The Lowdown: Issue #14 July 2022
TRON 40th Anniversary feature featuring an interview with cinematographer Bruce Logan.
Anaïs in Love
Directed by
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet is giving summer heat on the coast of Brittany. Should be foolproof.
Commeth the hour, commeth the erratic millennial with her life in total chaos.
No lesbian deaths to be seen and a rubbish boyfriend is put firmly in his place.
A flighty young woman sets out to seduce a lover's girlfriend in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's charming queer romance.
Amidst an ever-concerning heatwave, a cinematic summer of seduction has made itself known to audiences. Larger ...
Exploring Authenticity in Between Two Worlds
Juliette Binoche plays a middle-class woman who exposes the lives of the working class in Between Two Worlds, but the film also investigates the moral ambiguity inherent within this proposition.
Humanitarian crises rage, social uprisings break out; the turmoil of the modern world asks us to stop and consider if we’re living up to our potential as a ‘good person’. If we help someone in a time of crisis, we count it towards an imagined charter of acts of kindness. While this is commendable, the...
Elvis Presley’s best movies to watch at home
It’s true — Elvis Presley is back in the building. Thanks to the outrageous cinematic glamour of Baz Luhrmann, the King is returning front and center to the public eye. With Austin Butler embodying the legendary rock star’s hip-shaking spirit, Elvis turns the tables on his often fraught relationship with morally scant manager Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).
The best Laura Dern performances, ranked
From 'Jurassic Park' to 'Little Women' by way of 'Blue Valentine' in betw, we chart the most iconic roles from the actor's illustrious career.
A Match Made In TV Heaven — ITV And The Biopic
It’s possible that the only way to make a tantalising story more seductive is to add an element of truth. In recent years, televising a fictitious retelling of real stories has held favour with UK audiences—often delicious in their efforts to answer the unknown questions that have evaded the bandwidth of cold, hard facts. If the BBC have mastered the period drama and Channel 4 is the go-to for visceral modern narratives, ITV has continually excelled in the riveting delivery of the biopic. Per...
Every America's Next Top Model Season Ranked Worst To Best
It's difficult to remember a time before "America's Next Top Model" hit the airwaves. What started as a simple modeling competition finished as a 24-season titan, an international franchise, and one of the best reality TV shows of the 2000s. Dozens of celebrity judges and guest stars pop up over the course of the mega-hit series, and hundreds of wannabe models try out for the chance to be crowned as America's greatest runway-walker. No matter where they're from, what they've done, or how fami...
'Jurassic World Dominion' cast: Who's returning for the sequel?
Releasing in cinemas on 10 June, Jurassic World Dominion rounds out the epic dino-franchise which began in 1993 with Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park by bringing together old and new faces.
The sixth installment in the series is set four years after the dinosaurs of Jurassic World were released into the wild at the end of 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, with our favourite doctors and park staff reckoning with a new ecosystem that has been unleashed across the globe.
A mammoth task calls for an all-star team, seeing the return of some familiar faces from the original Jurassic Park tril
Why The Chicago P.D. Cast Looks So Familiar
With a lengthy network run and multiple Emmy award wins under its belt, it's safe to say that "Chicago P.D." is a firm fan favorite. Tackling high-stakes crime, city scandal and grisly deaths under suspicious circumstances, the Chicago Police Department's Intelligence Unit always has its work cut out for the members of the team. Headed by Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), the squad often has to juggle the task of keeping their city safe with complex emotions and hard-hitting backstories.
Wi...
Bodies Bodies Bodies ★★★★★
Director: Halina Reijn
Cast: Rachel Sennott, Amandla Stenberg, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete Davidson
Release: August 5, 2022
Not many people will have wondered what an Agatha Christie whodunit might have looked like if it was written by a Gen Z that’s been heavily influenced by the Y2K revival, but Bodies Bodies Bodies provides an answer the world didn’t know it needed. Taking loose structural inspiration from And Then There Were None, Halina Reijn’s vision for the incessant teen soaked in blood a...
Shadow Game review – migrant crossing doc leaves a sobering aftertaste
Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel’s experimental take on the modern refugee crisis reframes it as a video game to be conquered
While many of us were blissfully ignorant in our adolescence, content to play Runescape and Club Penguin, a game of more sinister proportions was unfolding across the continent. Taking an experimental approach to the nature of documentary filmmaking, Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel’s Shadow Game charters a new generation of teens on the run, threatened by the co...