Category: Year in Film

A huge salute to our 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival which has long since headed off into the not-so-distant past. We now look ahead as we…

“Behold, children, the glorious beauty of Mexico!” – The Book of Life Although it is often compared to Disney’s Coco (2017) in a way that…

I remember when I first saw Boyhood and experienced my adult self reliving echoes of my childhood. Many films remind us, trigger times in our…

For those of us who were kids in the 1980s, Brooke Shields was a goddess. By 1981, she was a world famous model and actress….

A huge part of celebrating our 10 year anniversary of Filmotomy is the specific focus on 2014 in Film. It has been a while since…

Don’t worry, we have plenty of time to submit our films of 1972, given the final stretch of awards season hotter than ever. But it’s…

Well, you voted, and then you waited for the results. You dug deep into your memories of 1988 in Film, as others desperately flocked to…

After a highly-publicised reshuffle of Disney’s executive team in 1984, newly-appointed CEO Michael Eisner and head of Walt Disney Pictures Jeffrey Katzenberg were keen to…

In the late ’80s to the early ’90s, there was a desire for blood. Built by the backbone of toxic masculinity and love of displays…

A Short Film About Killing opened in Poland in March 1988. Two months later, it played in competition in Cannes, where it won the Jury…

Coming-of-age films trade in nostalgia and relatability, so it makes sense that so many are about young men. The male experience is the generic one,…

Amidst the avalanche of franchise sequels and campy B-movies that seemed to dominate horror in 1988, a handful of horror’s big names were releasing some…

“They live, we sleep” is written on the wall of a vacant church where the protagonist, an unnamed man, wanders in search of answers. Currently…

It was only until this year that I saw for the first time Running on Empty. A family drama that is best known as the…