Armando Iannucci is an accomplished director, writer and producer, whose works include highly acclaimed and politically-charged sitcoms such as ‘Veep’ (2012) and ‘The Thick of It’ (2005), and more recent acerbic Soviet-era satire ‘The Death of Stalin’ (2017). His lates...

Todd Haynes’ ‘Dark Waters’ follows a man’s quest to punish the DuPont Corporation for knowingly dumping toxic waste within a region of Virginia, USA. It’s a film narrative that has been done before, but this does not mean it does not bring anything new to the table. Ma...

It’s 2002.

Monsoon Wedding has just released, and the world is enchanted by Mira Nair’s spun story of marriage, reunion, healing, and love. The wedding of Aditi Verma and Hemant Rai is magnetic: it brings together family from abroad, connects new lovers, and surfaces in...

After expressing an interest in developing my viewing repertoire of Non-English speaking films, I was offered the chance to attend Ciné Lumière’s ‘Cinema Made in Italy’ event, which spanned from the 4th-9th of March. The program dedicated time to not only screen the la...

This International Women's day we were graced with the formidable force of Rosamund Pike at the premiere of Radioactive, a biopic on Marie Curie. The films paints Madame Curie in a new, more vulnerable light, allowing us to see that within her genius she is also a woma...

This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's February 2020 "Young Creatives" Issue here

Young entrepreneur Dom Santry is the CEO of creative collaboration platform Daisie, which he founded alongside highly-acclaimed actress Maisie Williams. The platform...

Watching films and reading about them is thrilling. Whether light criticism, personal entries, or academic scholarship, in one form or another it's the embodiment of what you wanted to discover and learn more about when you first put on that movie. But like with most t...

'Emma' is the only Jane Austen novel I have not read. Aside from 'Clueless', I also haven’t seen any other adaptations of the original work, so I tried to look at the movie as a relatively self-contained entity. Within a comedy-of-manners framework, the film clearly tr...

The feeling of sheer disappointment when a favourite TV show is cancelled is an experience that happens to most of us at some point in our lives. It is even more raw when the series is denied a dignified conclusion which satisfyingly ties up all loose ends. This is pre...

With the highly anticipated release of the second series in January, ‘Sex Education’ has remained in the UK Top 10 on Netflix, with ratings soaring past series one. Ben Taylor, executive producer and director, has worked on the show from the earliest stages of piloting...