Edward and Caroline (1951) A progenitor of the romantic comedy formula (Review)

Aidan Fatkin 23/08/2017

Out of all the titan directors of French cinema who operated between the 1940s and the late 1950s, Jacques Becker is perhaps the least well-known. He cut his teeth working as an assistant to Jean Renoir during many of his projects including the famed war movie, ‘La Grande Illusion’ before […]

Letter to Brezhnev (1985) A tough, rough and influential British Rom-Com (Review)

Mark Cunliffe 25/04/2017

Call me a sentimental old northerner, but the opening to Letter to Brezhnev remains one of my favourite moments of celluloid. Whilst budgetary constraints mean that it may not be as epic as it clearly wants to be, it nevertheless understands that Liverpool is a British city to be mythologised; […]

Through the Wall (2017) Hasidic Judaism Rom-Com still falls into Rom-Com Traps (Review)

Mark Cunliffe 06/03/2017

“I have a hall. I have a dress. The apartment is almost ready. It’s a small task for God to find me a groom by the end of Hanukkah” So says Michal, the kooky heroine of writer/director Rama Burshtein’s Through the Wall (alternatively known as Laavor Et Hakir in its […]

Keyframe Episode 60 – The Homena Homena Fruit

Archaeon 27/10/2016

This week we find a gender swapped “sexy” version of Monkey D. Luffy, a ban on on plots about reincarnation or transport to other worlds, and a few trailers. Our featured anime is Parasyte: The Maxim part 1 (and technically the manga series Midori Days). Tune in to The Geek […]

4-Panel 53 – Androgynous Quasar

Archaeon 18/07/2016

The big news this week is that Fox have pulled out of Comic-Con over fears of piracy. Meanwhile Marvel have announced that everyone’s “favourite” superhero will be returning and we take a look at the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. Our featured comics and manga are Maga-Tsuki volume 1, C3-PO, […]

A New Leaf (1971) A Romantic Comedy ANYONE can enjoy! (Review)

Rob Simpson 15/12/2015

There is a great joy to be gleaned from the current golden age of boutique home video labels in their discovery of films previously lost to time; enter Masters of Cinema with their release of Elaine May’s A New Leaf. As expressed in the featured video essay, the Bluebeard of […]

Keyframe 09 – An Otaku in Oda Nobunaga’s Court

Archaeon 18/04/2015

We get animated this week with news of a TV series dedicated to our favourite character from Attack on Titan – Hange (Hanji) Zoë, anime-based theme park attractions, the ongoing ’60s Batman revival and more. Our featured anime are One Piece Part 9, The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (Oda Nobuna […]

Keyframe 09 – An Otaku in Oda Nobunaga's Court

Archaeon 18/04/2015

We get animated this week with news of a TV series dedicated to our favourite character from Attack on Titan – Hange (Hanji) Zoë, anime-based theme park attractions, the ongoing ’60s Batman revival and more. Our featured anime are One Piece Part 9, The Ambition of Oda Nobuna (Oda Nobuna […]

Eraserhead (1976) A Treasure Trove Release for Fans of David Lynch (Review)

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) Fukusaku gives Historical Epic the Yakuza Papers treatment (Review)

Revenge (2017): a haunting subversion of rape-revenge tropes (Review)

The Knack… and How to Get It (1965) caprice and candyfloss with a dark undercurrent (Review)

Classic Film Kid: The Invisible Man Appears (1949)(Review)

Calvaire (2004) – Grim and Nasty New French Extremity (Review)

Beat Girl (1959) British B-Movie that found a 2nd life in 60s America (Review)

High Tension (2003) Loved and Loathed in Equal Measure (Review)

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) A fun addition to the canon of Christmas Horror (Review)

Il Postino (1994) tragedies and small miracles in the Mediterranean (Review)

Strangled (2016) less reinventing the wheel and more a threadbare example of true crime cinema (Review)

Topsy-Turvy (1999) Mike Leigh’s chaotic ode to the theatre (Review)

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