“Dying is as Natural as Living”: BFI Re-releases Marilyn Monroe’s Final Film
Less than a year after the release of John Huston’s The Misfits (1961), both of its stars would be dead. Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe,...
Author: Paul Salt
‘Olivia’ Review: Ghosts in the Abattoir
In an intense close-up, a terrified cow ambles down the narrow steel passage that leads to its death. The animal’s distressed cries are only punctuated...
“When the lights go down and the curtains open, that’s the show”: Projectionists Andrew Walker and Jennifer Weston-Beyer on Big Screen Formats
Andrew Walker and Jennifer Weston-Beyer are projectionists at the Pictureville Cinema in Bradford, the home to the Widescreen Weekend and soon to host one of...
Curating Suspense: Inside the Four Seasons of Hitchcock with Rebecca McCallum
Rebecca McCallum is a writer, curator, podcaster and devoted student of Hitchcock’s cinema. She shall be presenting a season of Hitchcock films at the Pictureville...
The Day the Earth Blew Up: Daffy and Porky Finally Bring the Toons to the Big Screen
For the first time in their near hundred year history, the Looney Tunes are appearing in a fully animated theatrically released film. Porky Pig and...
Twinless Review: A Twisted Yet Delightful Dark Comedy
Roman (Dylan O’Brien) has lost his twin brother Rocky (also Dylan O’Brien, naturally). Aggravated by the reaction of his mother and of Rocky’s friends who...
A Legend in the Making: New Peter Sellers Blurays from Vintage!
Studio Canal’s Vintage label have produced beautiful bluray releases for two underseen Peter Sellers comedies; Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) and Only Two Can Play...
How a 1949 Queer Experimental Film proves that Die Hard is a Christmas film
Home Alone star Macauley Culkin recently weighed in on one of the oldest and often tedious debates in film culture: is Die Hard a Christmas...
Sherlock has always been cinematic: ‘Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases Review’
Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story was published just a year before the filming of Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), the oldest surviving film. Holmes...
‘The People Behind the Camera Behind the Animals’: Super Nature Review
Around the world, we see filmmakers chasing gorillas, reindeer, kangaroos, butterflies, snakes and dolphins across glorious rainforests, Arctic tundras, and scorched deserts, clutching their Super...