Coming to a cinema near you this March…
Released tomorrow on the first of the month, ‘The Aftermath’ features Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice), Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies television series) and Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty). Based on the Rhidian Brook novel of the same name, the film is set in Hamburg, Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War where, during that bitter winter, a love triangle is ignited.
One week later, an entirely different film will hit the screen. After the DC Extended Universe delivered ‘Wonder Woman’ in 2017, witness the arrival of ‘Captain Marvel’ into the all-conquering Marvel Cinematic Universe. Brie Larson (Room) is the former U.S. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers who becomes the superhero Captain Marvel while Samuel L. Jackson makes his ninth appearance as Nick Fury.
Directed by Peter Hedges, ‘Ben Is Back’ opens on 15 March and features his son, Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird) as the eponymous character with Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) as his mother. Similarly to ‘Beautiful Boy’, we follow a parent as they try to help their child overcome their substance addictions
Winner of the Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor at the Venice International Film Festival last year and nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe in the same category, Willem Dafoe portrays the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate’. Opening on 29 March, the film is set in the south of France during van Gogh’s final years.
Watch this space for film reviews!
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
