Alexia Oerter reviews the new feature, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and reflects on Efron’s twistedly effective performance.
Girls on Film: Sally Potter
DIRECTOR Sally Potter’s latest film The Party starts and finishes with a loaded gun, almost begging Chekov to take notice. It’s a searing, cringing satire on elitism in the political left. Despite being black and white, it attacks the topic with the energy of a punk rocker, as if Potter is demanding that the audience […]
My first game
LET me set the scene: it’s the mid-2000s and I’m in still primary school. My Blink 182-loving older brother just brought home a copy of Halo: Combat Evolved which he’d bought with his friend. We eject The Simpsons: Hit & Run and shove Halo into the rickety original Xbox disk tray. The iconic choral music […]
An Endgame in sight?
AN old Greek dude once said, “All I know, is that I know nothing”. You should keep this in mind as you buy your tickets for Avengers: Endgame. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that if you’ve managed to dodge around the social media spoiler minefield, you have no idea what […]
Stan and Ollie – Review
One of the things that defined the success of silent cinema titans Laurel and Hardy was their universal appeal. Masters of their art, they transcended language, culture and age boundaries with their slapstick genius. Whilst Stan and Ollie might fail to live up to that ludicrously high comic bar, it delivers its own kind of […]
The Little Things of 2018
It’s easy to focus on the big things of the year. Top 10s, best actors, blockbuster box-offices – these are the things that dominate the headlines. But what of the little things? We’ve gathered together a couple of Exeposé Screen writers to talk about their favourite smaller moments of the year. Margo Hanson in The Magicians […]
Girls on film
So many female filmmakers, collaborators, and other roles often go ignored in an industry that still has so far to go in terms of representation. Exeposé Screen Writers have contributed some of their favourite women in the industry, celebrating what they think makes them great. The Wachowski Sisters You might not instantly recognise the names […]
Beginner’s Luck – directors’ first times
There’s a first time for everything. Sometimes, that first go knocks it straight out of the park. Exeposé Screen writers discuss their favourite examples of this – the times when a filmmaker makes something exceptional on their first try. The Lure – dir. Agnieszka Smoczyska It’s 1980s Poland. Two flesh-eating mermaids. A sweaty, seedy nightclub that […]
Review: Mad To Be Normal
Accurately conveying mental illness and the efforts of psychologists to treat it poses a real challenge for film-makers. Too much gravity, and the film proves mawkish, depressing work for the viewer; too little, however, trivialises a serious subject which personally affects many people. Striking the balance is extremely difficult, but Mad To Be Normal achieves […]
Pride of place: queer representation in film
Being John Malkovich (1999) Released in 1999, the feature debut of both director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich serves not only as a commentary on the nature of celebrity in modern American culture, but also as an analysis of sexuality and self. These themes exist in Kaufman’s other films (Eternal Sunshine […]