First published on pagesdigital, here.
I emerged from Italian melodrama I Am Love with my head and heart spinning. Director Luca Guadagnino has made a rich and hypnotic film of grand scale about love, tradition and entrapment. Starring the inimitable Tilda Swinton I Am Love tells the tale of the Recchis, a high-society Milanese family, whose traditions are dissolving around them, creating first a ripple, then a tidal wave of change.
First published on pagesdigital, here.
High on drugs, two youths on a motorbike screech around a London housing estate. Filmed as a dizzying point-of-view sequence at the start of ‘Harry Brown’, the grey English sky wheels overhead and buildings streak by in a silvery blur. Viewed at this speed even the ugly estate looks lyrical.
First published in The Brag, here.
In 1975 an all-girl rock group called The Runaways formed in LA. Until then, women playing hard rock was rare in mainstream music. Fronted by guitarist Joan Jett and singer Cherie Currie, the five-piece – most just 16 at the time – braved it out until 1979, released four records, and were supported by bands like Van Halen and The Ramones. The Runaways tells this story with Twilight star Kristen Stewart playing Jett, and child star (now teen star) Dakota Fanning as the band’s manufactured ‘sex kitten’, Currie.
(The real thing)
