DIEGESIS : THE UNCONVENTIONAL MAGAZINE OF FILM AND TELEVISION CRITICISM

Reviews Archive - B

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Back to the Garden + Interview
“Are we facing oblivion? Is there life after death? If so, what for?” Jon Sanders' low budget improvisational drama tackles some challenging questions with a backdrop of the Kent countryside. 

by LAURENCE RUSSELL
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The Battery
The Battery is a zombie film with a more realistic and natural approach than most of its kind.

by MEGAN SOWERBY
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Benny & Jolene
The folk music film gets the British treatment via This is Spinal Tap and The Office.

by CIARAN MULLAN

The Magazine
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Black Rock
Director/writer team Kate Aselton and Mark Duplass borrow from the 1970s rape/revenge exploitation film in this $7million horror. 

by JOE DUCARREAUX
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The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola takes on Hollywood, celebrity obsession and contemporary youth in her latest offering, based on outlandish actual events.  

by BIANCA GARNER
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Blue is the Warmest Colour
Bearing the Palme d’Or from the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the sexually wild and refreshingly liberated Blue is the Warmest Colour provides an insightful social commentary on sexuality.

by CAINE BIRD
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Blue Ruin 
The tried-and-tested revenge thriller gets a refreshingly realistic makeover in Jeremy Saulnier’s second directorial feature.

by LAURENCE WEAVER
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Book of Life
Positively bursting with colour and culture, The Book of Life is a wonderful spectacle of animation that brings Mexican folklore to life with the magic of animation

[review] by LAURENCE RUSSELL
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The Borderlands
Can this home-grown found footage horror do anything to revitalise the increasingly tiresome genre?

by JODIE KIRKLAND
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Boyhood
With production formally beginning in 2002, writer/director Richard Linklater’s seminal film Boyhood, otherwise dubbed “The Twelve Year Project”, is an unprecedented cinematic achievement.

by LAURENCE RUSSELL
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Diegesis Magazine is produced by the BA (Hons) Film and Television Studies degree at Southampton Solent University. The views expressed in Diegesis are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of Southampton Solent University.