Kitty Green discusses crafting the sound design of The Assistant by recording office sounds and using them to create tension and discomfort. Listen to the …
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BFI Flare 2020 highlights: Disclosure and more trans stories
BFI Flare 2020 took place entirely online. Orla Smith highlights Dungarees (dir. Abel Rubinstein) and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (dir. Sam Feder) as the …
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Modern westerns: Andrew Haigh and Kelly Reichardt are deromanticizing the west
Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete shares DNA with Kelly Reichardt's westerns (e.g. Wendy and Lucy): both filmmakers are making modern westerns that deromanticize …
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Feel Good is a TV rom-com that skips the honeymoon stage
Mae Martin's Feel Good is a rom-com about addiction and queer identity that’s more interested in staying together than it is in the honeymoon phase.Feel Good is …
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Review: Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and dreamers thwarted by capitalism
Kelly Reichardt’s latest film about the myth of the American West, First Cow, follows two men searching for a better life elsewhere that’s always just slightly …
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P.S. We still love you, Lara Jean: Lana Condor’s perfect rom-com heroine
Lana Condor is the shining light at the centre of disappointing sequel P.S. I Still Love You. Why is she the perfect rom-com heroine in the To All the Boys …
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