Harry Caton
Sundance 2018 – Eighth Grade – Review
Certain associations are damaged with overuse. School, awkward teens, the nuances of young social lives - perhaps it's all been done before. But then...
Sundance 2018 – First Reformed – Review
How do I even start to review First Reformed? A dense thing, so much of it incurs the sort of sheer fascination that had...
Sundance 2018 – The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Review
Sometimes you just need a film that’s perfectly pleasant. That’s not to say it can’t be bold in that demeanour, possess genuine stakes, or...
Sundance 2018 – Leave No Trace – Review
For a film to tackle the numbing effects of post-crisis dissociation with its entire formal being should be laudable. Leave No Trace, however, falls...
Remember This – Crimson and Clover
Imagine you’re a boy band, circa-1968. Having fallen into a rut of bubblegum pop, three-chord progression, and so many other Monkees-adjacent hackeries, you start...
A Haiku encapsulating Exam Stress
A page sits, half-scrawled
with ink; the slight silence plays
host to a haiku.
Review: Phantom Thread
When you use words like “elegant”, “exquisite”, and “sumptuous” to describe something, there comes an unavoidable sense of pretension that clouds all else. When...
Album Review: David Byrne – American Utopia
There’s something captivating in David Byrne’s spasmodic anxiety. You can find its eclectic manner in so much of the former Talking Heads’ frontman’s work,...
Review: All the Money in the World
It’s a curious thing for a film to feel as if it’s been handled with stylistic competence and boast utterly exquisite mise-en-scène – and yet fail...
And the Oscar goes to… Netflix
With the advent of streaming services, the Academy’s reliance on cinema-screenings for awards qualification faces a crisis of legitimacy. It’s a bizarre kind of...
