Food, Femininity and First Time Filmmaking: An Interview with Lucy Brydon, Director of ‘Body of Water’
I talked to director Lucy Brydon about her debut feature ‘Body of Water’ after it screened at Glasgow Film Festival 2020.
Category: Flip Screen
GFF REVIEW: ‘Vivarium’ Puts The Mundane Brutality of Life’s Milestones Under The Most Surreal Microscope
Reviewing Lorcan Finnegan’s surreal suburban sci-fi for Flip Screen.
GFF REVIEW: ‘Proxima’ Is A Moving Meditation on Motherhood and Ambition
Review of the GFF opening gala film for Flip Screen.
Fatness in Film #2: Five Plus Size Heroines From The Last Decade
My column for Flip Screen, this time picking some of my favourite fat characters from recent years.
REVIEW: ‘Plus One’ Elevates Its Predictable Plot With A Sharp & Sincere Script
Review of the wedding season indie comedy for Flip Screen.
REVIEW: ‘Say My Name’ is a Charming But Forgettable Exploration of Identity
Review of comedian Deborah Frances-White’s screenwriting debut for Flip Screen.
Fatness In Film #1: Three Things That ‘Shrill’ Gets Right About Living As A Fat Woman
My first column entry for Flip Screen, all about how ‘Shrill’ is positive representation for fat women.
REVIEW: ‘The Party’s Just Beginning’ (2019) is Mostly Bleak, With Mere Glimpses of Greatness
Reviewing Karen Gillan’s directorial debut for Flip Screen.
REVIEW: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ (Season 7) “Manages to end with the message it started with”
If there’s one thing that ‘Orange Is the New Black’ has taught us, it’s that not everybody gets a happy ending. Throughout the six previous seasons of this iconic, sometimes…
Five Stages of Young Love in ‘Call Me By Your Name’
“What does one do around here?” “Wait for the summer to end.” Watching the hazy blue skies, sun-sheened skin and absorbing romance of Luca Guadagnino’s much-loved ‘Call Me By Your…
‘The Matrix’: 20 Years On, We’re Still Tumbling Down The Rabbit Hole
‘What is the Matrix? Control.’ We find Morpheus explaining this to Neo in the Construct; a blank, white space used by him and the Resistance to simulate any situation they…