“Death follows me” states Lucy Fly (Vikander), a troubled Swedish ex-pat working as a translator in Tokyo, where she has been living for a little over five years. She has her own house, plays in a string quartet and begins a passionate relationship with enigmatic ramen chef Teiji (Kobayashi), whose hobby as a photographer initially … Continue reading REVIEW: Earthquake Bird (2019)

When life throws at you a hefty amount of trauma to navigate, over time it is frightfully easy to succumb to cynicism and allow it to clog up your once positively healthy heart, resigning yourself to never rediscovering that spark again. Especially when you’re staring the lavish excess of annual festivities in the face, where … Continue reading REVIEW: Last Christmas (2019)

Start your engines because Le Mans ’66 (or Ford v Ferrari) is an absolute belter from start to finish. James Mangold has managed to create a film so good that it won’t matter if you have any interest in either Ford or Ferrari. There is also no need to even really know what Le Mans … Continue reading REVIEW: Le Mans ’66 (2019)

To say Roland Emmerich’s back catalogue is a mixed bag is an understatement. Churning out films that all register somewhere on the epic scale since the mid-80s, Emmerich has found himself a niche in Hollywood as one of their masters of disasters, reaching his peak with efforts like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and … Continue reading REVIEW: Midway (2019)

“The world’s a hungry place.” What does it mean to be magical? Do you have to be able to communicate with others telepathically to be considered magic? Or is being able to face your childhood fears and attempt to overcome them its own sort of magic? Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep has some interesting answers for … Continue reading REVIEW: Doctor Sleep (2019)

They’re finally back, the horrifying gang that once terrorised the audience through brutal murders and their uncontrollable lust for violence. We first encountered Baby, Otis and Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses where we enter their hell and begin to learn about the horrific atrocities they like to commit. Zombie … Continue reading REVIEW: 3 From Hell (2019)

In “18 to Party,” a group of young teens on the cusp of proper adolescence meet up outside a youth club. Since they’re the youngest, mere eighth graders, they automatically go to the back of the line and wait for everyone else to be admitted before they’ll find out if they’ve made the cut. There … Continue reading REVIEW: 18 To Party (TBA)

“Shoot for the moon, and if you miss it, cling on to a motherfuckin’ star.” In the 13 years since Eddie Murphy’s Oscar-nominated turn in Dreamgirls, his career seemed to have spiralled out of control. Numerous Razzie award wins and nominations, a bank account refill with Shrek Forever After, and whatever the hell Norbit was, … Continue reading REVIEW: Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti appearing on the city’s subway carriages, in a time when the city saw it as just vandalism. Decades later she learns she’s become an unexpected icon of the street art world, and now at 75 she must navigate her way … Continue reading CAMFF 2019: Martha: A Picture Story

Pleasant and charming are the first two words that come to mind when I think of The Aeronauts. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones team up once again after the success of ‘The Theory of Everything’. This time around Redmayne is James Glaisher, a scientist who believes that he can prove that the weather can be predicted, he just … Continue reading REVIEW: The Aeronauts (2019)

This 2019 American science fiction action film is directed by Tim Miller. It is the sixth instalment in the ‘Terminator’ franchise but serves as a direct sequel to 1991s ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ It stars Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna and Diego Boneta. In the not-too-distant future, battle weary Sarah … Continue reading REVIEW: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

HAIL SATAN! Those are of course the words you would expect every rich white suburban mum to utter when putting on a spread for her equally as upper-class and stuck-up parental group. However, in Satanic Panic, director Chelsea Stardust explores the possibility of the secret behind rich elitist success and power being the fact that … Continue reading REVIEW: Satanic Panic (2019)

Last night The Showroom cinema in Sheffield hosted a screening of Ken Loach’s latest masterpiece of social realism ‘Sorry We Missed You’. Followed by a Q&A with the legendary director. The film itself is an all too familiar story in this gig worker economy. But more on that later from Daniel Dylan Wray. The Showroom … Continue reading Ken Loach Q+A at The Showroom Cinema

Taking place in York from the 6th November until the 10th, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival brings with it an enormous amount of creative art to the city. Boasting a collection of over 300 short films, 16 feature films, Virtual Reality and immersive experiences, masterclasses and artist screenings. There are a variety of activities to … Continue reading Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2019

Arguably the most influential, and popular, band in British music are sure to have a history that crossed over from music to cinema. Danny Boyle’s Yesterday (2019) is just the latest in a long line of films about and starring the fab four. Their influence on film actually started much earlier when the band were … Continue reading The Beatles in Film

Way back in January 2015, the founders of JumpCut, Jakob Barnes and Nick Deal, were finding ways to procrastinate at university, when they discovered they shared an intense passion for film. As you do when you feel strongly about something, they went on the internet to shout into the void, writing up film reviews that … Continue reading Support Our Team On Patreon

We bring our month of spooky coverage to a close today with Siobhan’s ranking of the Friday the 13th films – a franchise that has literally been to hell and back. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning I genuinely hate this one. It has no redeeming features in my eyes, it is boring, … Continue reading My Ranking Of The ‘Friday The 13th’ Franchise

“Film is pop art. It is not whether it’s auteur cinema or not; that’s a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.” – Denis Villeneuve Denis Villeneuve is a filmmaker who embraces what cinema is, and what cinema can achieve. He understands, through the synergetic style of his films and by his sentiment above, that the discourse … Continue reading The Despicable Invasion of Cinema? A Defence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Musician David Wingo has composed thirty film scores over the course of a twenty-year career, as well as working in TV (Barry is one of his recent TV scores). He is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Midnight Special) and David Gordon Green (Joe, Manglehorn). He has now teamed up with first-time feature-film … Continue reading INTERVIEW: ‘The Report’ Composer David Wingo

If a stranger stopped you late at night, what would you do? “Filmed across 7 evenings, writer & creator CK Goldiing sits on an anonymous bench in Sheffield, UK. It was usually 11pm or later. Each evening, he asked passing strangers a different question – inviting them to join him on the bench to explore … Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: Interview With ‘The Bench’ Writer & Creator CK Goldiing

Whether you love or hate Todd Phillips’ controversial Joker, most of us agree that it looks and sounds pretty fantastic. The costume design by Mark Bridges (known for his work with PTA, including Phantom Thread), the production design by Mark Friedberg (The Ice Storm, Far From Heaven, If Beale Street Could Talk and Wes Anderson’s … Continue reading INTERVIEW: ‘Joker’ Cinematographer Lawrence Sher

Trendy underwear scarves and drinking pool water may be the least bonkers things about Greener Grass, the directorial feature debut from Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe. It’s a suburbia in a kindness crisis as this American life satire finds its way into theaters after running a hefty and stylish festival circuit in the States and … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Directors Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe Talk ‘Greener Grass,’ Their Absurdist Suburban Satire

The Peanut Butter Falcon director’s Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz were in London for the 2019 BFI London Film Festival. Having already won the audience award at this year’s South by Southwest festival it arrives in London with 3 sold-out screenings and being one of the hottest tickets in town. I got to sit down … Continue reading INTERVIEW: The Peanut Butter Falcon Directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz

Back over the August bank holiday, director Paddy Murphy showed his latest feature film to the world for the first time. FrightFest, the biggest horror and genre festival in the UK was home to the world premiere of The Perished. A bleak tale of a young woman who has to deal with the physical and … Continue reading INTERVIEW: ‘The Perished’ Director Paddy Murphy