Before Midnight: ‘Linklater manages to paint a picture of love that feels real, without sacrificing any sense of beauty or magic’. 
'Before Midnight, then, beautifully and honestly draws Linklater’s Before trilogy to a fitting conclusion. As a meditation on love and relationships it reminds us that it’s not always plain sailing, but that this doesn’t erase or dampen our past experiences.'
Josh McGrane evaluates the final instalment of Richard Linklater's beloved 'Before' trilogy.
Birra for breakfast
"I remounted the bike with some difficulty and started wobbling along the road as the amber glow that bathed the Italian countryside faded into darkness."
Breakwater : Oxford’s first student feature-film in forty years
"Recently, our primary filming location burnt down"
Don’t Worry Darling – Review
'You get the impression that is was intended to be a feminist statement - but a statement of what ?'
“The world outside our window”: Musings on Marvel
It was recently announced that Penguin Classics would be publishing special editions of certain Marvel comic books. The comics will be part of a...
Ten years of the Dark Knight trilogy
It’s been 10 years since the trilogy that shaped my entire life came out.
Booksmart and the art of growing up
They find themselves together – still best friends, still ambitious and imperfect and stressed.
Oxford Student Film Review: The Pacifist
The Pacifist was put together by a team of recently graduated University College students. Matthew Hardy (2018, English) wrote the screenplay and collaborated on direction with Jack Rennie (2017, PPL).
Local Hero: a modest masterpiece
What is the first thing that springs to mind when I ask you about the connection between a red phone box in the Scottish highlands, a crackpot oil multimillionaire from Houston, and a jaded and cynical negotiator who ends up trapped between the two colliding worlds?
The Hegelian Dialectic of James Gunn’s Peacemaker
What links the superhero show Peacemaker with the work of 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
The Meaning Of Motherhood: Spencer and Parallel Mothers
Life, death, and birth are all present in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. Both films address, in different ways, what the meaning of motherhood is.
The fairest of them all? Hollywood’s problem with visually represented villainy
We know that we ought to validate and cherish visible difference. Why is cinema struggling so much to catch on?
From Emperors to Crystal Skulls: The highs and lows of the sequel
It’s no wonder that sequels have a, let’s say, less than stellar reputation when films like Grown Ups 2 exist.
Eternals: A Structurally Misunderstood Masterpiece
Marvel’s Eternals, the 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was released to somewhat middling critical reception, despite largely positive audience scores. I think it’s a brilliant film, despite the considerable body of opinion that stands in vehement disagreement.
