She Does Filmz, London, a pioneering female-director-only online film platform, celebrates Women’s Day by announcing its April 2018 launch in the UK and US. Highlights: First-ever platform dedicated to female-director content. Inspired by “Me Too”, “Time’s Up” and other action-driven women movements. Defies industry status quo in which female films are 63%
By Johnathan Bonham. Wow, so this was an intense one. I was squirming in my seat through the end of the movie just hoping that it would stop. By no means is that a bad thing, it was just a little hard to watch the excruciating pain that was being dealt.
Inspired by true events, Hold Me Down is the heart-breaking depiction of a day in the life of Chastity, a young single mother who is forced into stripping and prostitution in order to support her child. In this short feature, we bare witness to the abuse, degradation and humiliation that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprSAf4QQvk&feature=youtu.be Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs in the North of England, FUNNY COW is both a love-letter to a bygone era
For a year in which I’ve decided to delve into several Alfred Hitchcock deep cuts it seems fitting that I take a detour down some dark roads with France’s own master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. Making the most of the inclement weather I settled down with Le Corbeau (1942). As
