A film about a son’s experience of his father’s depression has won the student prize at the Cornwall Film Festival Short Film Competition. The film, Bulldoze, uses puppets to explore what it feels like to be leaving home and leaving behind a parent who is suffering with the illness. Student filmmaker, Jake Earwaker, is in his third year of a course studying Film Production at...
I am Not a Witch's Shula (Maggie Mulubwa)
I am Not a Witch is a hilarious and harrowing tale from one of the finest new voices. I am Not a Witch is the debut film from Zambian-born director Rungano Nyoni. It tells the story of a young girl, Shula, accused of witchcraft after a trivial mishap. The phenomenon in Zambia relates not to a cackling Shakespearean witch, but a...
Poster for Paco Plaza's Veronica
Paco Plaza took the horror genre by storm with the Rec. series (remade in English as Quarantine) and he’s back to do it all over again with Veronica. The plot is fairly generic for horror, and is based on a true story, which means nothing to anyone except the marketing team. But Veronica's success lies not in its originality but in...
Film Rating:  ★★★ Grief can be a difficult thing to capture accurately on film. Most actors aim for Sean Penn in Mystic River but it can very easily turn into a sobbing, melodramatic B plot from an episode of EastEnders. Thankfully The Unseen captures the feeling perfectly thanks to Jasmine Hyde's measured performance and some assured directing from Gary Sinyor. After...
Small Town Crime poster
Small Town Crime tells the story of an alcoholic ex-cop who finds a young woman’s body and commits himself to finding her killer. It’s not the most original premise, and neither is the plot, character development, or execution. And that’s the first impression I got from this movie: that it didn’t stray an inch from its genre’s conventions. This doesn’t...
Still from The Shape of Water
Sensational director Guillermo del Toro is back to his roots with The Shape of Water. And it’s making a serious splash. The Shape of Water takes audiences back to the fairy-tale style of earlier movies. The story explores the relationship between mute cleaner Elsa and the creature at the government facility where she works. The premise and plot are a little...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
From Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the critically acclaimed The Lobster and Dogtooth emerges The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The most unsettling and thrilling movie to grace our screens since David Fincher’s Gone Girl. From The Killing of a Sacred Deer's opening shot, Lanthimos reaches out of the screen and pins your eyes open like Alex DeLarge in that scene...
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Written by Josh Lambie – Student Pages Student Writer Film Rating:  ★★★ Behind the closed doors of cosy suburbia lies the passions and desires of our animalistic, depraved (?) selves that we try so hard to hide from society. Palm Swings attempts to somewhat explore this theme (many other films do this with more depth and tact). That's not to say that the...
Written by Rohan Angus – Student Pages Student Writer Film Rating:  ★★★★ Perhaps the most anticipated films of this year are the upcoming Justice League and the fresh release of Blade Runner 2049, yet for me the biggest prospect of 2017 was Stranger Things 2 due to the major success it had within its first season under Netflix. Much like last year, Stranger...
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Written by Josh Lambie – Student Pages Student Writer Film Rating:  ★ I have a belief that even in the most mediocre film, beneath the layers of its shortcomings, lies the seeds of a better film. There is usually always something about a film that is interesting and could be explored further. This is the highest praise I can give to The Body...

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