Tag: 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…

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…

There’s something uniquely American about the genre of the “buddy movie.” Ever since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy got into all kinds of trouble together…

For some reason, in this time of self-quarantining, I’ve found myself drawn more than ever to the horror genre. In particular, those of the 1980s. Hellraiser,…

Actress Jane Birkin exists in multitudes. From Rivettian chess piece in Love on the Ground and La Belle Noiseuse to unsteady androgynous lover in La…

Remember back in 1988 when you could just run on down to the local video store and rent a movie or three? New releases like…