On Saturday 13 April, we were treated to a preview screening of Years and Years at the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival at BFI Southbank. Years and Years centres on an everyday Mancunian family, the Lyons, over a fifteen year period. The first ten minutes is a montage at lightening
Weddings are probably the most awkward social situations you can be in, especially if you’re an emotionally repressed Englishman. Unless it’s somebody close to you, then you may only know around two or three people so you have to spend most of the reception spending time making small talk with
By Frankie Wallace. There are all sorts of reasons to watch movies that go far beyond the plot or actors involved. Movies like Spanglish and Big Night can be enjoyed for their focus on delicious meals and cooking; Gidget and Into the Blue have the ocean as their centerpiece, attracting beach
In the sensational zom-com musical Anna and the Apocalypse, a schoolgirl (played by Ella Hunt) and her pals must fight for survival as civilisation collapses around their ears. It’s left to the younger generation to pick up the pieces, battling zombie hordes, stopping for an occasional musical number, and trying
The 90s were a weird time for film, right? I mean, there was all sorts of crazy stuff going on. We had the rise of the indie darlings, filmmakers brought up on genre films, applying their knowledge of movies from watching movies to the movies they themselves then made. We
