Nasty Women Exhibition – Empowerment: In Conversation with the Curator Calum Hall

Following their last year’s success, Creative Debuts teamed up with Nasty Women New York, Lisbon, Amsterdam, North East and London to celebrate an incredible group of artists from around the globe. And so, in the heart of the bohemian Shoreditch and perfectly timed to open on International Women’s Day, Creative Debuts‘ extraordinary team premiered their exhibition…

NASTY WOMEN EXHIBITION – Empowerment

Women’s empowerment means different things to different people, but to us women, it generally stands for three things: equality, the power to make our own choices and the opportunity to make said choices. From March 8th to March 10th, an international feminist exhibition will showcase an incredible number of sublime works that channel women’s empowerment,…

68th Berlin International Film Festival: Marilyn Review

It takes courage to follow your heart, and the pain of self-discovery is at times hard to endure. This is the journey that awaits Marco (a superb performance by the emerging actor Walter Rodriguez), the young protagonist of Marilyn. Marilyn – a directorial feature debut from Martín Rodríguez Redondo, an Argentinian filmmaker – is based on…

Phantom Thread Review

Can any of us really comprehend that Daniel Day-Lewis now ended his acting career? Hear me weep… Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most awarded (three Oscars under his belt) and the most fastidious – he had always carefully chosen his projects – actors out there, gave his farewell performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread….

Maze Runner: The Death Cure Review

Maze Runner: The Death Cure, directed by Wes Ball and written by T.S. Nowlin, is the final chapter of the popular saga about the young protagonist Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his friends. Thomas has been running around ragged during the first two of The Maze Runner series. Initially, he had to escape the Maze with his Glader friends in the…

Darkest Hour Review

Winston Churchill was of one the most charismatic politicians of the 20th century. His stubbornness and his refusal of Hitler’s “peace” proposals led to saving around 330 thousand lives, in both British and allied troops, from Dunkirk in 1940. One can easily say that were it not for Churchill, world would have been a different…

In Conversation with Yoshiki of X Japan

It was one of those days when I did not really expect any extraordinary to happen… until I got invited to interview the amazing, superbly talented multi-instrumentalist Yoshiki of X Japan who – at the time – was visiting London to promote Stephen Kijak’s (Stones in Exile, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What…

The Disaster Artist Review

Los Angeles is a multi-layered city. It is the cradle and the capital of the American cinema, and thus the birthplace of the world’s greatest stars, but also… a place where many delusional ‘artists’ try their luck. When Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious man, in 1998 befriended Greg Sestero in an acting class in San Francisco,…

The 12th London Korean Film Festival: The Outlaws Review

Gangster themes have been featured in South Korean cinema since the 1970’s, but they only became popular in the early 1990’s. Various productions ‘promoted’ the image of an ‘honourable’ mobster; however, in the past decade or so, films took on a more vicious approach to the subject matter; they became more brutal, with homicides and…

The 74th Venice International Film Festival: Strange Colours Review

Born in Russia and based in Australia, Alena Lodkina has started her filmmaking odyssey by directing documentaries and short productions which were screened at festivals around the globe, including at Melbourne International Film Festival, Antenna Documentary Festival and Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival. Her feature debut project Strange Colours, alongside with Mazen Khaled’s Martyr, premiered in Biennale…

Dunkirk Review

The topic of the Second World War has been depicted mainly in two ways so far, which can be represented by Steven Spielberg’s exactness and the poetic parlance of Terrence Malick; other films flicker in between these two directors’ styles. Christopher Nolan, meanwhile, with his new production – Dunkirk – took a different approach to the…

Wonder Woman Review

When it comes to feminism and the power of the female, the world of superheroes is much too starved for comfort, especially so when it comes to the film renditions of the popular comic book material. But in 1941, William Moulton Marston introduced a completely different character to the budding world of comics – Wonder…