Tag Archive: British New Wave

“Servant? I’m nobody’s servant!” How Joseph Losey’s ‘The Servant’ Became a Class Above the British New Wave

By the time of The Servant’s release in November 1963, the so-called ‘British New Wave’ was in its final throws, huffing and puffing like the chimney stacks that littered its films. Starting with… Continue reading

Forget Churchill & Darkest Hour, Wallace & Gromit are Brexit Britain on the Big Screen

Since the release of rousing historical Churchill biopic Darkest Hour it’s been almost inseparable from Britain’s current European crisis; Brexit. Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Churchill has been met with standing ovations in cinemas,… Continue reading

England is Mine Review

Portraying a character as famously (or perhaps infamously?) defiant, inimitable and enigmatic as Morrissey on screen was always likely to rattle a few bones and enflame a few eye brows. Most troublesome is… Continue reading

The Selfish Giant Review

“The British are Coming!” Paul Revere exclaimed to the sleepy people of Boston in the dead of the 1775 night, warning them of imminent arrival of some nasty British soldiers hankering for a… Continue reading