Emma Dibdin
Emma Dibdin
Articles by Emma Dibdin
10 Questions for Joss Whedon
Monday, 10 June 2013
Few heroes of cult genre television ever manage the transition into mainstream financial success – although JJ Abrams hasn't been doing too badly for himself – and for many years Joss Whedon's... Read more... |
Simon Killer
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Blunted affect is one of the more troubling symptoms associated with certain kinds of mental illness – the face becomes a mask, the voice becomes a monotone and the eyes, far from windows into the... Read more... |
Compliance
Friday, 22 March 2013
When Craig Zobel’s true-life thriller Compliance played at Sundance, it was met equally with critical praise and audience outrage. There were walk-outs, complaints, shouting matches. At the London... Read more... |
Robot & Frank
Monday, 04 March 2013
We've hardly gone wanting for big-screen robots of late – Michael Fassbender's inpenetrable cyborg was the best thing in Ridley Scott's overly ponderous Prometheus last year, while many... Read more... |
No
Tuesday, 05 February 2013
There’s an episode in the first season of Mad Men in which the ad execs of Sterling Cooper brainstorm a campaign for Richard Nixon, just prior to the 1960 presidential election. Dramatic irony being... Read more... |
Storyville: The Queen of Versailles, BBC Four
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
As a parable on the dissolution of the American Dream, the story of self-made billionaire David Siegel is almost too good to be true. Much like another recent documentary – Bart Layton’s... Read more... |
Safety Not Guaranteed
Thursday, 27 December 2012
If 2012 is to have a cinematic legacy, it may just be remembered as the year big-screen time travel came of age. While Rian Johnson’s pulpy noir Looper explored the moral and spiritual implications... Read more... |
I, Anna
Tuesday, 04 December 2012
There are very few examples in film history of a son directing his mother, and there’s a distractingly Oedipal vibe at the core of Barnarby Southcombe’s I, Anna that might offer some clue as to why.... Read more... |
Silver Linings Playbook
Thursday, 22 November 2012
If Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games had somehow left you in any doubt about the magnetic screen presence of Jennifer Lawrence, prepare to surrender your remaining misgivings. Playing outspoken,... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Film Critic David Thomson
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Film critic and historian David Thomson has been writing on cinema for more than 40 years, and in that time has penned books both sprawling (1975’s A Biographical Dictionary of Film) and specific (... Read more... |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wednesday, 03 October 2012
Teenage angst is a tough thing to get right on screen. It's perenially popular territory for dramatic writers in part because of the heightened emotions it allows for – as Joss Whedon once phrased it... Read more... |
Parade's End, Series Finale, BBC Two
Saturday, 22 September 2012
"There used to be among families...a position, a certain...call it 'parade'." So stammered Benedict Cumberbatch's rigidly principled, increasingly broken Christopher Tietjens at the climax of last... Read more... |
The Hitchcock Players: Cary Grant, North by Northwest
Friday, 03 August 2012
The final collaboration between Grant and Hitch also happens to be some of the helmer’s most deft, joyously irreverent work, light of touch and bereft of sentiment. Grant stars as a slick Mad Ave... Read more... |
Magic Mike
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Having spent the last few years alternating deftly between high-profile, star-studded blockbusters (the Ocean’s trilogy, last year’s Contagion) and smaller, more niche projects starring largely... Read more... |
The Amazing Spider-Man
Tuesday, 03 July 2012
Let’s be honest – there is no non-cynical way to justify remaking a barely 10-year-old franchise film. With a Batman “reboot” already on the cards for after Christopher Nolan ends his directing... Read more... |
Your Sister's Sister
Friday, 29 June 2012
Lynn Shelton’s follow-up to 2009 Sundance hit Humpday doesn’t immediately seem to share much common ground with its predecessor. Where that film could be summed up (albeit reductively) in a single... Read more... |
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