Light Up: Review. By Simon Thompson. Ryan Ashely Lowery’s Light Up is an intimate documentary centring around the lives of four black gay men and one transgender black woman in the city of Atlanta, an...
Fuck You Cupid: Review. By Simon Thompson Writer/director Felipe Marinheiro’s Fuck You Cupid is a well-crafted short film from a visual standpoint, but sadly suffers from a largely lacklustre script, ...
‘We Want the Finest Films Known To Humanity’ – Handmade Films 1978-2013. By Simon Thompson. Handmade Films was a British filmmaking Icarus, a studio which achieved so much so quickly, but burnt ...
Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part Two. By Simon Thompson. Part One here. A seasoned auteur Melville’s hard-boiled era would begin in earnest with his movie Le deuxième souffle ...
Jean Pierre Melville, French Cinema’s Forgotten Man: Part One. By Simon Thompson. Jean Pierre Melville is a director with a career that is simultaneously both easy and difficult to categorise at the s...