Cinema
“I just think the two things go together really well.” Jason Wood from Manchester’s HOME talks about Pop Stars on Film
Received wisdom usually has it that pop stars shouldn’t act.
Review: DraigCon 2019, Manchester Printworks
A few years back, there was a small but significant shift in the way children dressed up for World Book Day.
Review: David Lynch artist talk and Twin Peaks: Series 3 Episode 8, Manchester International Festival, HOME
The David Lynch at HOME season has an inescapable problem – an elephant man in the room, if you will.
Film Review: In Fabric
Until now, British writer/director Peter Strickland has brought us films such as Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy which, while exquisitely and dazzling labours of love, were perhaps just a little too arch and knowing.
Unmissable sights and sounds: introducing Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Stefan Tobler, founder of Sheffield-based And Other Stories, tells Northern Soul why he’s more excited about Doc/Fest than Cannes.
Film Review: Charlie Bubbles, HOME, Manchester
More than half a century after its partial release, it’s difficult to prise Charlie Bubbles apart from the cultural resonances that have aggregated limpet-like to its slender framework over the intervening decades.
“The Stone Roses never wrote any songs about Timperley.” Director Steve Sullivan talks about Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
When he was growing up in Preston, Steve Sullivan couldn’t say for sure that Timperley was even a real place.
Film Review: Being Frank
Let’s be honest, the character of Frank Sidebottom could be marmitey.
“We’re all thinking differently now.” Women in film at Manchester’s HOME
The topic of gender inequality in the film industry is a headline-grabbing, hashtag-generating one, and plainly there’s much work to be done to redress it.
Film Review: Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 horror film Suspiria is a nutty barrage of sights and sounds akin to a particularly unhinged ghost train ride, centred around ambitious young Suzy Bannion joining a Viennese dance academy which she discovers is run by a secretive coven of witches with murderous plans.
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