By Matt Keay. Renos (Aris Servetalis) is a quiet, reserved, lonely professional waiter in Athens. He spends his days at work, subserviently tending to the patrons of the restaurant he has been employed at for many years. His nights, an ordered routine of uniform, washing, ironing and preparing for another day
Russia’s national cinema is paradoxically infamous for both its chilly austerity and its wild expressivity. When it comes to making solemn cinematic allegories for its spiritual state, Russia sometimes seem unmatched. Recent examples like Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless and Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Student have levelled extraordinary yet thematically apposite critiques of the country’s spiritual destitution, both reducing
Manchester 2017. '30 years on the yard' - the words uttered from Oasis's most infamous brother, Liam Gallagher. 'Liam Gallagher: As It Was' is an intimate tell-all story of Liam's career, post the Oasis breakup in 2009. Their breakup was part of a number of disputes over the years, that
The Beach Bum: The BRWC Review. Character studies can make for spectacular films. They are a versatile basis for any filmmaker looking to develop depth in the story they are setting out to tell. From there the films can go anywhere, and they may become evocative and mesmerising as
Joker: The BRWC Review. Evocative, dark, twisted and utterly mesmerising, that is what Todd Phillips has done with Joker. When the announcement first came in 2017 that we were getting a Joker origin story, I had no idea what to expect. The seemingly constant failure of the DCEU had
