The editor’s letter
Good evening everyone! As we are once again at the end of a term, I’d like to wish you all luck in your upcoming exams and assignments from all of us here at LSMedia! For those of you who have already finished, More...
Liverpool Lift-Off Film Festival – preview
As a city notorious for its thriving artistic and cultural activity, Liverpool has been selected to host the international Lift-Off Film Festival from Monday 25 – Thursday 28 February. This festival, as the More...
Director Profiles: Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson, one of the few film auteurs of the 21st century, is renowned for producing whimsical and highly stylized films that are incomparable to the products of his fellow cohorts. Anderson’s film career More...
The Rocky Horror Show – review
Image from www.atgtickets.com Richard O’Brien’s worldwide hit, The Rocky Horror Show, made its way to Liverpool last night, as part of the show’s 40th anniversary nationwide tour. The stage show, which was More...
Five films you should see this week: Valentine’s Special, part 1
As Valentine’s day approaches, the same questions are being asked all over the country: What should I buy my significant other? What restaurant should I pick? What if I can’t find a date and have to More...
Director Profiles: Francois Ozon
Each week, LSMedia will be bringing you a brief introduction to film directors across the industry, from the famous to the lesser known. Tune in each Saturday for the next installment. Born in 1967 to a middle-class More...
Classic DVD of the week – Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The swinging sixties produced a number of things. Its music, film, television and art are defined as being from that period by their eccentricities, bold colours and hippy counter-culture mentality. When looking More...
Classic DVD Of The Week – Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
There’s a mist descending on the small Bavarian village as chaos threatens to impede progress when a traditional secret is lost with the death of its proprietor. This description could be a muddy folk horror More...
Five films to see this week- Christmas special
Ahh, the Christmas holidays – the time of year where it is acceptable to pour yourself a large brandy and watch as many movies as an erratic shut-in like myself. I could spend this column outlining the More...
Classic DVD of the week – Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
This review contains spoilers. Can violent media have a definite effect on society? It’s an issue that has been around since visual media’s very inception, with censorship following tow, worrying about everything More...