Sunday 8th June 2025

Tag: film

Normalising transgression: A review of Joyland.

'In Joyland, queerness becomes banal, and patriarchy is revealed to be futile.'

Students shoot first feature film in 40 years

Breakwater Pictures Ltd., the limited company which grew out of the student production company Nocturne Productions, finished the shoot of their namesake feature film...

Review of PAMFIR: ‘A raw and unpretentious thriller’

The sounds of heavy breathing and rustling form the first few seconds of Pamfir, the debut feature film of Ukrainian director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. These...

Top 10 Films for a Trouble-Free Trinity

'For every bit of stress, there’s a summer day, an approaching sense of closure and a long sprawling summer to keep us going.'

Everything Everywhere All At Once: A Review

"EEAAO is a boundary-breaking, deeply entertaining film that deserves all 11 of its Oscar nominations and more."

In Conversation with “Women Behind the Wheel”

"...we wanted to combine the idea of us as two women traveling along this road... while using our journey as a vehicle or an opportunity to meet local women and gain access to their stories."

International Queer Cinema

"International cinema displays queer lives in all their diversity and beauty, in a range of contexts far wider than we can see in Hollywood."

Éric Rohmer: A French Director’s Refreshing Simplicity

"His films are not as stunning, nor impressive, as might be those of his Nouvelle Vague contemporaries, but peacefully pleasant."

Glass Onion Review: Those ‘Knives’ Need Sharpening

Beatrice Ricketts considers whether the latest mystery film from Netflix lives up to Agatha Christie's novels.

Films to romanticise Oxford

Films, and art in general, hold a unique ability to capture beauty, allowing us to see the grandest settings or the most every day places with awe and wonder.

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 ?'

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