David Conway
Review: Tolkien
Tolkien opens with a tug of war of different elements. Within the first ten minutes, the film cuts between fantastical images from Tolkien’s imagination,...
Local Look: The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
With only a few months left at Exeter, I’ve been thinking about the things I’ll miss the most. And amongst the friends and societies,...
Capernaum – Review
Capernaum poses one of the most pertinent, yet often unspoken questions of our time: do we have the right to have a child? Is...
The Best of the BAFTA shorts at Exeter Phoenix
On Tuesday evening, a packed Studio 74 at the Phoenix sat down to watch the last year's BAFTA shortlist for best short film and...
An Interview with Hope Dickson Leach
One of the main points that arises in the conversation I have with director Hope Dickson Leach is a question she asks: “What is...
An Interview with Kermode and Mayo
Imagine watching your favourite podcast in front of your very eyes, but you’re a part of it. You let their witterings unfold and bounce...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Review
Dumbledore. Grindelwald. Lestrange. Flamel. Nagini.
The above is a disparate series of Wizarding World names and references. When you look at these names like this,...
Brass Eye, Toast and Oxide Ghosts: An Interview with Michael Cumming
There’s a moment during our conversation where Michael Cumming reminisces about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s Derek and Clive records, about the thrilling sense...
Wildlife – Review
The decline of the nuclear family, as portrayed in Wildlife, is not a rapid revolution. It is a slow, painful transition that chokes each...
The Other Side of the Wind – Review
“Now our revels are ended”, quotes a character towards the conclusion of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of The Wind. The reference echoes magician...
