Film Reviews

by Andrew Weltch The creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a fascinating tale in its own right. In the summer…

scratch23rd August 2019

by Andrew Weltch Think of the ‘original’ cinematic Frankenstein’s monster, and the image that comes to mind is probably Boris…

scratch1st January 2019

by Michael Johnstone A chief aim of Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley is established in the film’s opening shot: a young…

scratch23rd July 2018

By Carla Ferreira “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art— / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the…

scratch31st March 2015

By Barry Forshaw Initially, several Gothic novels were infused with a certain Anglican perspective that (among other things) aligned the…

scratch20th March 2015

By Suzie Grogan In the twenty-first century it sometimes seems that only the things that are ‘up to date’ ‘relevant’,…

scratch11th January 2015

by Esther Rutter Anyone who is even faintly familiar with the major events in the lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge…

scratch24th November 2014

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