Jennie Kermode

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Editor and Content Director at Eye for Film

Author - https://t.co/pDOoxGpYe5 - journalist & filmmaker. Advisor at Trans Media Watch, editor at Eye For Film. NUJ, OFCS, CherryPicks, #binders - any pronouns.

Articles

Seeking Mavis Beacon - Film Review - Eye For Film

6 days ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

What did a computer user look like in the mid-1980s? The gaming revolution was in its early stages then; the idea that there might reasonably be a computer in every home was only just beginning to take off. Some people saw the beginnings of an industry in which great fortunes would be made; others saw the whole thing as nerdy and essentially pointless. Either way, it was associated with men – and, almost exclusively, with white men. Mavis Beacon changed all that.
Interview with Martyn Robertson about Make It To Munich

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

The Make It To Munich team on the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival red carpet with festival director Allison Gardner. Photo: Eoin Carey When promising young Aberdeenshire football protégé Ethan Walker was severely injured in a car accident, it initially looked as if he might be struggling to do even basic things for the rest of his life. His dream of a professional sporting career seemed far away.
Broke (2025) Movie Review from Eye for Film

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

What makes a Western? Is it the look, the location, the storyline? From the outset, Carlyle Eubank’s film very much has that atmosphere, though it takes no interest in revenge or moral reckoning, and it’s set in the present day. Its initial shot could take place any time in the past two centuries, however, as a quiet, smooth white plain shining in the morning light suddenly erupts, a battered-looking man clawing his way up from beneath the snow.
Interview with Peng Tzu-hui and Wang Ping-wen about A Journey In Spring

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

A Journey In Spring Photo: Queer East Best Director award winners at Tribeca 2023 for their film A Journey In Spring, Peng Tzu-hui and Wang Ping-wen are continuing to present it on the festival circuit, with its latest screening being at the Queer East film festival, which showcases LGBTQ+ related work from Asia.
A Journey in Spring - Film Review - Eye For Film

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

To live next to a waterfall is to become so familiar with its constant roar that it’s only when parted from it that one really understands its majesty; and then, the silence is dizzying. There was a beautiful waterfall in the place where she grew up, Siù-tuān (Yang Kuei-mei) recalls. She kept meaning to go back and visit it.
Virginia Giuffre and the terrible cost of breaking the silence

1 week ago | bylines.scot | Jennie Kermode

Perhaps the most tragic thing about the death of Virginia Giuffre at the age of just 41 is that almost every news story about it has included the name of one of her alleged abusers in its headline. Even in death, she is defined by the powerful people she spoke out about. The public has been discussing their probable reactions. Her bereaved family members, and the people on whose behalf she spoke out, have already been forgotten by many as editors treat her death as the end of the story.
Interview with Wyatt Russell and Dennis Quaid about Broke

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

Wyatt Russell and Dennis Quaid in Broke A modern Western of sorts about a rodeo rider forced to reassess his life after learning that it’s dangerous for him to keep on riding, Carlyle Eubank’s slow-paced, beautifully photographed film centres on a performance by Wyatt Russell, the son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, who is best known as an actor for his work in TV series The Falcon And The Winter Soldier.
Vulcanizadora (2024) Movie Review from Eye for Film

1 week ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

Inspired by the opening of Gus Van Sant’s Gerry, which itself drew heavily on aspects of Bela Tarr’s Sátántangó, Vulcanizadora is very much a filmmaker’s film, but that’s not to say that it won’t impact you profoundly no matter who you are. In its initial sequence, framed entirely in imitation of Van Sant’s work, we see two best friends – one played by Joshua Burge and one by director Joel Potrykus – heading out into the forest together.
Interview with Natja Brunckhorst about Two To One

2 weeks ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

Three best friends. Two countries in the process of reuniting. One giant pile of phased-out money, left in a mine tunnel to rot. Natja Brunckhorst’s delightful new comedy, Two To One, tells the story of a fabulous heist carried out by East German citizens who discover a loophole in their pre-unification currency exchange system and exploit it for all it’s worth, exchanging stolen East German marks for flashy new products they can then sell on for Western ones.
Interview with Richard Green about I Know Catherine, The Log Lady

2 weeks ago | eyeforfilm.co.uk | Jennie Kermode

Catherine E Coulson Photo: Richard Beymer An accomplished stage actor who transitioned easily to film; a talented director of photography; a devoted rebbetzin, friend and mother; and much loved by viewers around the world as the Log Lady from Twin Peaks, Catherine E Coulson was a remarkable woman who lived a remarkable life. That life is celebrated in actor and director Richard Green’s documentary I Know Catherine, The Log Lady, which recently screened as part of Fantaspoa.