Molly Vs The Machines – online safety and mental health resources
Friday 6th March 2026
Here are some resources about online safeguarding for young people – and for anyone wanting to spend less time on smartphones and more time in real life!
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Film review: Wuthering Heights – “Fennell interprets obsession for passion”
Thursday 26th February 2026
There are few books that shorthand themselves so readily as Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights. Windswept moors, doomed lovers, youthful angst. A passionate, … Continue Reading
Film review – Nouvelle Vague
Tuesday 17th February 2026
The French New Wave was born in the pages of the “Cahiers du Cinéma” magazine in the 1950s. Its writers, including François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette … Continue Reading
Film review – The History of Sound
Friday 13th February 2026
The History of Sound emerges as a quietly radiant romance set during the First World War, unfolding with sensitivity and visual elegance. The film is anchored by the deeply … Continue Reading
Film Review: Marty Supreme – “breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous”
Tuesday 20th January 2026
In Josh Safdie’s breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous debut as sole-director, Timothée Chalamet plays the eponymous quick-witted Marty, who desperately strives to avoid a banal existence as a New … Continue Reading
Film Review: Hamnet – “Buckley’s interpretation of Agnes’ grief, and anger, is instinctive and beautifully nuanced.”
Monday 19th January 2026
It’s fair to say that cinema has found a great deal to mine from Shakespeare. Whether it’s the man himself, hurrying along to the playhouse, trying to stave … Continue Reading
Film Review – David Bowie: The Final Act
Monday 12th January 2026
With a career spanning five decades, how does one pack the full extent of David Bowie’s life and works into a single, 90-minute film? The answer, coming from this Channel … Continue Reading
Film Review – Die My Love “a must-see film”
Monday 24th November 2025
“I’ve always been so fascinated by characters and getting into their psyche” and Lynne Ramsay’s latest film Die My Love is no exception. In … Continue Reading
Film Review: Bugonia – “a psychological thriller with large helpings of dark humour and sudden lurches into horror”
Monday 17th November 2025
As Teddy Gatz tends his bee hives he is inspired to equate how their lives are influenced by higher forces, to how superior forces work on the human race. As … Continue Reading
Film Review: Exhibition on Screen – Caravaggio “the artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring a cinematic flair to religious iconography”
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Reviled (or revered) as the Bad Boy of Italian Art, Caravaggio’s reputation seems to be unassailable. The bravura artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring … Continue Reading
London Film Festival 2025
Friday 24th October 2025
Back from a week at London Film Festival and looking forward to a packed November programme.
LFF always sounds like fun to people who don’t go but … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Exorcist – “not a film about evil”
Tuesday 7th October 2025
I am pretty sure it was around the release of the 25th Anniversary edition that I saw William Friedkin’s 1974 adaption of William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist. … Continue Reading