london film festival Archives – The Oxford Student

Review: Days of the Bagnold Summer

14th October 201920th October 2019Úna Yates

I was curious to see what Simon Bird (of Inbetweeners fame) would make of his directorial debut. I expected a comedy, but perhaps not one as touching as this. Set in an “everytown” somewhere in the Midlands, the film’s plot is simple. Daniel lives with his divorced mother in an English suburb and can’t wait […]

Review: All This Panic

21st October 201631st October 2016Rose Lyddon

‘There’s all this panic,’ says Delia, scrolling through her phone the day before the start of a new year of high school. Her messages are a stream of carefully-chosen outfits as her friend tries to figure out which to wear tomorrow. It’s a thread of panic that runs through the experience of teenage girls: how […]