I’m Barnaby, the Film Editor for The National Student. I am currently studying for an MA in Film & Cultural Management and have a degree in Film Studies & English Literature from The University of Southampton.
As well as writing for The National Student, I was the Film Editor for The Edge, the University of Southampton’s entertainment magazine, for three years. I have also written for the Radio Times and as a film critic for Out On Campus, a student magazine focused on the LGBT community.
I am completely and utterly obsessed with films (and, in this day and age of cinematic television, that includes good TV drama).
As part of my role with The National Student I love putting together big features rounding up many films titles and expressing my opinions on cinema through my writing.
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Film Review: Violette
As much as a testament to Violette Leduc, this is a testament to writing; the discipline it takes and the areas of life it opens up for exploration.
Film Review: Gone Girl
We have here a rare situation where the film is better than the work upon which it was based. This may well be the film of the year.
DVD Review: The Films of François Truffaut
The celebrated director's films have been reissued in new editions in the UK
Christmas is coming! Nativity 3 gets a new trailer
Nativity 3 is coming to cinemas this November!
Film Review: Night Will Fall
Perhaps one of the most harrowing documentaries every made, this well-made and upsetting Holocaust film charts the making of another film, Sidney Bernstein’s 1945 documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.
London Film Festival Review: Black Coal, Thin Ice
Chinese director Yi'nan Diao’s Black Coal, Thin Ice is a strangely opaque and more than a little tiresome crime story and would-be thriller.
London Film Festival Review: The Dead Lands
Though not the most enjoyable slice of entertainment, this is still an eye-opening look at Maori tribal life – an area of history frequently neglected by cinema.
London Film Festival Review: In Darkness We Fall
This Spanish found-footage horror thriller runs out of power and outstays its welcome
London Film Festival Review: Metamorphoses
This patience-testing and pretentious piece of nonsense is a modern-day adaptation of Ovid’s narrative poem of the same name.
Film Review: Night Moves
Director Kelly Reichardt offers up an intense eco-thriller that's impossible to get out of your head.
Film Review: Vamps
This vampire comedy from Clueless director Amy Heckerling doesn't have the requisite bite
Blu-ray Review: Sabotage
Olivia Williams is the real star of this terrifically weird and violent crime thriller
Blu-ray Review: Locke
This extraordinary film, misleadingly sold as a dark thriller, is a clever play on form with a superb performance from Tom Hardy.
Blu-ray Review: Plenty
This is odd and effective drama, based on a play by David Hare, has been picked out from deepening obscurity by the wonderfully dedicated distributor Network Releasing.
Film Review: Before I Go To Sleep
This adaptation of S.J. Watson's ingenious thriller is disappointingly mundane and boringly conventional.
Film Review: The Last Showing
This entertaining thriller is a clever comment on the declining projection standards in UK cinemas
Blu-ray Review: Divergent
Shailene Woodley and Theo James conjure up a convincing chemistry in this dystopian action adventure, but the real highlight is Kate Winslet as a particularly chilly villain.
Film Review: Blood Ties
Blood Ties is a moderately involving, occasionally turgid crime drama, reassembled from the 2008 French-language film Rivals.