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Film Review: The Departure (2020)

Carson Timar June 11, 2020

For Sama takes top prizes at the 22nd British Independent Film Awards

Robin Write December 2, 2019

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IFP Announce their Gotham Awards Nominations for 2019

Robin Write October 25, 2019

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Independent Film: Metropolitan, Whit Stillman (1990)

Katie Keener March 12, 2019

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Filmotomy Podcast 62: The Rise of Independent Cinema

Robin Write March 12, 2019

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Mr Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End Review

Bianca Garner February 13, 2019

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ekaj

Mark Ziobro September 8, 2018

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Americans have been travelling west since the early 19th century. Many did so with a ‘Manifest Destiny’ purpose. Settlers held...

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Queer culture - speaking very, very generally - and what 'queerness' looks like in the present day has shifted over...

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Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) offers a sensory pleasure one can usually only experience in a serene, lakeside...

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: Molly Lipson On Her Short Film ‘No Strings’

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WATCH – A Short Video Recap of 2024 in Film

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With the year 2024 in Film a little way behind us, it is surely the perfect time to remind ourselves of the depth of cinema...

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Oscars Voters, Our Dreams Grow Darker – ‘Nosferatu’ is Coming, As Academy Awards Nominations Voting Begins

Robin Write 2025-01-07 0 Comments

There is something pretty covert about the momentum that Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has right now. As far as Oscars players go. But time is a...

Does The Power of the Dog’s 12 Oscar Nominations Indicate Best Picture Advantage Over CODA’s 3?

Robin Write 2022-03-18 0 Comments

Imagine a world where we determine our Oscar predictions by which film has the most nominations. Perhaps not the defining factor, but one which sways...

How Does Kristen Stewart’s Diana Fit Into Awards Season Royalty?

Robin Write 2022-03-04 0 Comments

Imagine the line "Where the fuck am I?" reflecting not only Diana Spencer's imminent, seclusive journey to Sandringham, but also the highly anticipated notion that...

Campaign Writings To Oscars Academic For Make Consideration Of Glorious Maria Bakalova

Robin Write 2021-03-09 0 Comments

As I delved enthusiastically into this very piece in late February, I could already hear the echoes that Maria Bakalova can't win the Best Supporting...

Back Shelf Cinema: Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Robin Write 2020-10-15 0 Comments

I personally could not have put our 1967 in Film series to bed many months ago without re-watching and constantly praising what amounts to the...

How Far Can We Embrace the Character and World of Mathilda in Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional?

Robin Write 2020-09-22 0 Comments

The cinematic year of 1994 might carry varying degrees of weight a quarter of a century later. The visceral landscape, our resonating view of film,...

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The Ice Tower (2025) Review: A Chilly Child-like Fantasy Full of Wish, Wonder & Wanderlust

Hannah Taylor 2025-11-20 0 Comments

What happens when you blend fantasy with reality? You get a dream-like landscape where the two realms are so closely related that you can’t split...

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)

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A large pot of boiling milk on a stove. Hands ladling milk into small bowls held by smaller hands one after another, and another, and...

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert)

Hannah Newman-Smart 2025-09-21 0 Comments

Anna Muylaert’s comedic and heartfelt drama, The Second Mother, is a tale of what happens when you subvert class expectations and believe your own self...

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Arab Women In The Arts 2025: All the Must-See Highlights

Hannah Taylor 2025-08-30 0 Comments

Hosted by the AFMI (Arab Film & Media Institute), the Arab Women In The Arts (AWITA) showcase ran from 22nd to 27th July 2025. This...

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dearALICE: Britain’s Talented Boy Band, the Docuseries & their Amazing Meet & Greet

Hannah Taylor 2025-04-13 2 Comments

The dearALICE members in the "Ariana" Music VideoImages Courtesy of @dearaliceofficial/ Graphics by Hannah Taylor The last time I attended a K-pop event was seeing...

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