David Conway
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...
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...
Teenage Hedonism – Review
If there’s one word to describe Callum Newens’ new short film, Teenage Hedonism, it’s confident. A coming of age comedy focusing on a social...
30 Years of Drowning by Numbers: A Q&A with Peter Greenaway
Outside an English country home, framed with the shadow of a deceased bird blowing in the wind, a girl with a skipping rope looks...
Staring back at Brass Eye
Switch on the news today. Go on, just have a look. Any channel you can. See the visual onslaught of complicated graphics, bizarrely confrontational...
