All posts by Guy Pullen
Double Exclusive Review: Venom & A Star Is Born.
Venom A film about Eddie Brock/Venom, Spider-Man’s famous foe, has been in the works ever since his appearance in Spider-Man 3. Whilst Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios decided to share […]
Exclusive Review of ‘A Simple Favour’ & ‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’.
“Both directors are stepping out of their boxes.” In this article, I will be changing it up and look at two films in one article. Both films may seem different […]
Exclusive Review of Gaspar Noé’s ‘Climax’.
Noé’s LSD cinematic bad trip is a masterpiece. With films like Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Love, Gaspar Noé has proven himself as France’s most controversial auteur. His films are distinctive and disturbing yet […]
Exclusive Review of Chloe Zhao’s ‘The Rider’.
A subversive eulogy to the western. The mythos surrounding the cowboy is now one that seems to belong to a bygone era, one of white hats and black hats, saloons, […]
Exclusive Review of Ian Samuel’s ‘Sierra Burgess is a Big Loser’.
Sierra Burgess is a self-love rom-com romp… Sierra Burgess is a Big Loser sees the eponymous teenager falling in love via text with a jock from another school called James. The catch to […]
Exclusive Review of Aneesh Chaganty’s ‘Searching’.
An internet based thriller that ticks all of the right boxes… The 21st century could very well be named ‘The Age of The Internet’: we use personal devices to browse the web […]
Exclusive review of Jeff Tomsic’s ‘TAG’.
Childhood nostalgia with an all-star cast… Released on the 14th of June, TAG follows a group of highly competitive friends who meet every May to play an aggressive rendition of the […]
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: a coming-of-age for a new generation
Sundance breakthrough The Miseducation of Cameron Post is finally getting its UK release this September. It’s eventual arrival marks the second directorial effort from Queen Mary alumni Desiree Akhavan, and with it a topical […]
BlacKkKlansman: black cinematic excellence
We have seen almost too many films to count that focus on race relations, civil rights and the Klu Klax Klan (KKK), given how politically charged these subjects are, it […]