Category: Film Review Writing

  • Sinvergüenzilla in First Kiss (2021)

    Sinvergüenzilla in First Kiss (2021)

    Our sapphire-coloured sapphic protaganist is introduced to the audience by doing exactly what most of us were forced to during the Covid-19 lockdowns – watching crap television and eating popcorn as she sighs about how much she wants to be kissed right now.

  • Death and Bowling (2021)

    Death and Bowling (2021)

    Buried treasure and dead names. A body positive dominatrix. Purple pastels and bowling shoes. Entirely indecent comparisons to bowling balls and an evisceration of the tired Hollywood tropes which both shape and limit transgender representation on screen.

  • Wet Sand (2021)

    Wet Sand (2021)

    Moving. Heartbreaking. Unsettling. Affirming. It’s a ferocious piece of cinema with beautiful cinematography and a soundtrack that haunts.

  • Memory: A Cats Review

    Memory: A Cats Review

    Originally featured in The Founder Newspaper, January 2020 Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Abel Fenwick

  • Luce (2019)

    Luce (2019)

    The film Luce, darling of 2019’s London Film Festival is a classic work of American Gothic for a thoroughly modern age. As a guide to those not spending their second year studying the subject, American Gothic is quite different from its European counterpart. European Gothic is Dracula; castles, curses, crosses and dark hallways. There’s generally a supernatural…