When writer-director Sean Baker fully broke into the cultural consciousness as a filmmaking auteur – that rarest of descriptions in this age of sequels, reboots and recycled intellectual property – with 2024’s Anora, it felt somewhat overdue. Baker’s eighth feature…
Scott Hammond·
During this consistently stifling summer of 2025, there’s been more than just a whiff of nineties nostalgia floating in the air. The reconciliation between the Brothers Gallagher and resulting sixteen-years-in-the-making Oasis reunion has apparently infused many a middle-aged bastard with…
Scott Hammond·
Toward the end of this enjoyable and inspiring 100 minute documentary, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne describes the eponymous collective of session musicians therein as “as much the authors of these songs and this music as the artists they did it with.”…
Scott Hammond·
15th November 2022 After surpassing a Go Fund Me target of £1,500 in the spring of 2022, independent filmmaker Jusep Moreno was able to organise and promote screenings for his charming 53 minute documentary film. Centred around the story of…
Scott Hammond·
From clips of quaint countryside traditions to flirtatious paganism and sudden bouts of crowd violence, Paul Wright’s 2017 film Arcadia took a coruscating flashlight to British people’s relationship with the land. Sewn together from a scouring of 100 years of…
Conal Dougan·
Hollywood’s profitable propensity for recycling its own young in the name of a sure bet blockbuster is writ large over this latest effort, with Tom Cruise sporting his patented shit-eating grin at every opportunity as director Joseph Kosiniski re-visits…
Scott Hammond·
18th May 2022 “It’s a testament to the strength of our Mayfest audiences that so many of you have turned up this evening” says festival co-director Kate Yedigaroff in referencing the torrential weather conditions and the as-good-as capacity turn out…
Scott Hammond·
Robert Eggers’ (The Witch, The Lighthouse) third film expands the themes of his previous films (how humans and the supernatural interact in accurately portrayed historical settings) and sets them in Dark Ages Scandinavia with all the bloody violence…
Scott Hammond·
4th April 2022 Arriving garlanded with praise from seemingly all angles, The Worst Person In The World is the last in Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy (Reprise and Oslo 31st August being the others). An occasionally hilarious,…
Scott Hammond·
28th March 2022 Jacques (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan) Audiard’s latest offering is somewhat of a departure from his usual gritty examinations of crime and marginalized figures from urban French society.…
Scott Hammond·
6th October 2021 While filming 1965 film ‘Help!’, George Harrison picked up a sitar being used by musicians in a restaurant scene and thus began The Beatles guitarist’s life encompassing obsession with Indian music, and Indian culture in general.…
Scott Hammond·
21st October 2019 With the release of ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy’, Hot Chip have entered a fresh, invigorating new chapter in their career. The band embarked on a huge UK tour this October which included Bristol’s very own O2…
Kevin McGough·