Tag Archives: Satire

Prone to Bouts of Mania, Narcissism and Power Failure: Watching High-Rise and Snowpiercer in 2021

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/watching-highrise-snowpiercer-2021/ SSP

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Review in Brief: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Borat is the hero we all deserve right now. The world is in a tailspin and needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Now Borat is a known quantity, Sacha Baron Cohen needs help in throwing a spotlight … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: The Platform (2019)

Posted on May 26, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

THE PLATFORM may feel relevant but it’s extremely obvious in its use of metaphor. One character (Zorion Eguileor) has a catchphrase, responding to every passing comment of his cell mate (Iván Massagué) with a derisive “Obviously”. “Obviously” could be this … Continue reading →

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Porco Rosso (1992) Review

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/porco-rosso-ghibli-movie-review/ SSP

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60s Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

When author Terry Pratchett wrote about his time working as a publicist for a nuclear plant, he described how he came to realise that there’s no funnier phrase than “two completely independent failsafe systems”. The extent to which everything goes … Continue reading →

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Review: The Death of Stalin (2017)

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

If there’s a darker comedy out there than THE DEATH OF STALIN, I’m not sure I want to see it. This is the blackest of black humour, a seemingly impossible situation to derive laughter from, but Armando Iannucci somehow manages … Continue reading →

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My Favourite…Animation

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

My favourite animated film is THE IRON GIANT. Brad Bird’s big-screen directorial debut is magical, pure and simple. It preserves the central themes of the Ted Hughes story on which it is based, but makes them far more hard-hitting by … Continue reading →

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Review: Okja (2017)

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I’ve loved the work of South Korean genre-manipulator Bong Joon-ho since university. Criminally, we never got his last film SNOWPIERCER in the UK (at least not officially), so the fact that his latest, OKJA, has gone straight to Netflix is … Continue reading →

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Series Retrospective: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Ten films, six years, and two distinct phases later and Marvel are sitting pretty as kings of the proverbial movie castle. Try and cast yourself back to before Tony Stark strapped on his first scrappy suit of armour to escape … Continue reading →

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Review: Religulous (2008)

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Just to start I’d like to say that yes, I am an atheist, and my views of RELIGULOUS, an admittedly fairly one-sided satirical documentary will reflect my religious outlook. It’s a divisive film, and there’s no reason why you’d get … Continue reading →

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