Lucy Isobel Clarke

It seems to be no coincidence that Tunnels—a play set in East Germany—is playing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. 2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, and recently the […]

Joe Wright’s 2005 debut Pride & Prejudice has become the definitive adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel. Last week Netflix released his latest film, The Woman in the Window, to abysmal reviews. Lucy Cla […]

Home is, so they say, where the heart is. With ownership comes the prize of being able to shape your home exactly how you want but many of us who live in rented accommodation must accept magnolia-coloured walls […]

Family tensions simmer and new flames spark at a British holiday caravan site in Sweetheart, an honest and witty debut from director Marley Morrison. Lucy Clarke reviews.

If I asked you when you were at your […]

Photograph: Transmission Films

We wear clothes almost all the time. We have deliberately chosen to wear those flared jeans or that structured jacket. Even the fashion phobic curate their wardrobes, even if […]

Director Paul Greengrass moves away from action blockbusters and presents a warm gentle drama that seems too old-fashioned for 2021.

No genre of cinema is more synonymous with the USA than the Western. From […]

At sixteen, I was often late for class. Weighed down by a satchel, heavy with tomes from fantasy writer George R.R. Martin, I lumbered up each step. I brought two along just in case I read the first gargantuan […]

The further that modern Western animation has strayed from traditional hand-drawn animation, the more it has honed in on one particular aesthetic.

The big studios favouring 3D animation want to reflect an […]

Is there something about the cold weather and the dark nights that make us yearn for the petticoat-wearing, ball-dancing, etiquette-minding past? The darkening months are synonymous with Poldark and Downton Abbey […]

It’s easy to split the British public into two camps: cat lovers or dog lovers; marmite loathers or likers; republicans or royalists. Wait until the day of a royal wedding – in one camp there’ll be an interview w […]

German director Christian Petzold has been working for over two decades and is an expert in taking the very essence of an emotion and distilling that into ninety minutes. His 2012 film, Barbara, perfectly […]

In the run-up to Halloween, many film lovers want to watch a bloodcurdling horror. For others, the scariest film they can imagine watching is either The Addams Family or The Nightmare Before […]