Tom Davidson·Jul 2Long live physical media! The fight must never endPhysical media is more important than ever and the powers that be want to take it from us.
Tom Davidson·Jun 10Martin Scorsese’s What Happens At Night – what to expectThe filmmaker is venturing into new territory with the mysterious, dark What Happens At Night, based on a 2020 novel by Peter Cameron
Tom Davidson·May 27Backrooms: Kane Parsons turns the liminal space into a surreal nightmare in horror debutBeneath Backrooms’ horror lies the suggestion that modern life — half-empty offices and anonymous workplaces- is already a kind of maze
Tom Davidson·Feb 16Robert Duvall’s Frank Hackett was a harbinger of 21st-century journalism and ethicsNetwork’s Frank Hackett, played expertly by Robert Duvall, is the ultimate journalist pragmatist.
Tom Davidson·Feb 9Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a two-hour music videoEmerald Fennell’s singular vision for the acclaimed Charlotte Bronte novel is an over-stylised and overlong chore.
Tom Davidson·Feb 8Seven things the Oscar nominations got wrongThe Oscar nominations landed on 22 January and, predictably, they made some embarrassing mistakes
Tom Davidson·Dec 29, 2025So long, 2025, a bad year for British feel-good films (and Steve Coogan)Ah, the British feel-good classic. They’re a popular little sub-genre of movies; based on ‘true’ stories (more on that later), cast with a…A response icon1A response icon1
Tom Davidson·Dec 14, 2025Disney surrenders to AI (for $1bn) — the thin end of the wedge is hereIn a $1bn deal, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has fired the starting gun on AI’s legal takeover of the creative industry
Tom Davidson·Dec 5, 2025The day the movies died?Movies will adapt and overcome, I have faith in that, but cinemas might not.A response icon3A response icon3
Tom Davidson·Oct 21, 2025Rankings are stupid: 41 movies at the 2025 BFI London Film FestivalWhat did I make of the films at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival, including Hamnet, Bugonia, Die My Love and Pillion
