Portsmouth DarkFest has returned for a Covid-safe Halloween celebration of the supernatural, the macabre and the weird. Since 2016 the organisers have delighted in staging a festival that celebrates the rich and diverse local creative [… read more ]
Local resident and film enthusiast Paul Toomer reviews Christopher Nolan’s new film, Tenet, after returning to the cinema for the first time since lockdown. Ever since his debut in 2000 with Memento, Christopher Nolan has [… read more ]
Derek Swannson is a New York-based filmmaker who has recently collaborated with University of Portsmouth visiting lecturer and S&C regular Matthew Alford on an apocalyptic comedy, Oddfinger: Eagle Kill. Here, Matthew talks to Derek about [… read more ]
Last night saw the Portsmouth screening of The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union commemorating 21 firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty during WW2 and honouring another Hampshire firefighter, [… read more ]
‘The Firefighters’ Story’ documentary comes to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Auditorium on Friday the 27th of September 2019, marking the first centenary of the Fire Brigade’s Union. S&C Contributing Editor, Paris Ali-Pilling, reports. It has been [… read more ]
The closing event of this year’s Portsmouth Festivities was themed around Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. The event showcased a series of new interpretations of Neruda’s work from leading poets, [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s DVMISSION is in its twelth year and is the longest running 48-hour film challenge in the UK. But this is no ordinary film festival… DVMISSION is an annual, not for profit and independent film [… read more ]
Unrest, an award-winning documentary about ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is screening in Portsmouth on 16th November, organised by Sally Callow, founder of Portsmouth-based ME Foggy Dog, which raises funds and awareness for the ME Association. Sally [… read more ]
Dr Stephen Harper of Portsmouth University is impressed by some aspects of the new cinematic telling of history’s largest military evacuation – but what about the film’s politics? According to my late mother, my grandad was [… read more ]
Portsmouth University student Chloe Franks salutes an extraordinary new genre that is revolutionising the way we watch and judge films and television programmes. There’s a man stumbling along the middle of a deserted road, back [… read more ]
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