Tom Cottey

Film Journalist

United Kingdom

Tom Cottey is a freelance film journalist & short film maker. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Press 2013, has covered Cannes for the Nisimazine and his writing has been published by Little White Lies, Grolsch Film Works, New Empress Magazine & Permanent Plastic Helmet among others. As a filmmaker he has worked with organisations including CODOC, Guerrilla Zoo & Carnesky Productions. He also runs a blog called Reflections, with the aim of promoting cultural diversity through cinema.

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Features

Berlinale Talent Press
02/12/2013
SOUND, SILENCE & SHRIMPS

The master sound designer and film editor Walter Murch reveals the secrets of good sound.

Berlinale Talent Press
02/08/2013
TALENT PRESS 2013: TOM COTTEY

Developing a career as a film critic in Britain is no mean feat. The competition is fierce, but becoming a film critic starts with assuming a vocation, rather than a job title.

Grolsch Film Works
08/31/2012
Top 10 Far Out Horror Movies

With the release of Peter Strickland’s audacious, giallo-inspired Berberian Sound Studio, we thought we'd take a look at the horror genre at its most frighteningly ‘far out’. But be warned: your head may never recover.

Grolsch Film Works
The Worst Films of All Time

In 1974 Robert De Niro and Al Pacino first shared the silver screen in The Godfather Part II, arguably the greatest gangster film ever made. In 1995 they enjoyed the most intense coffee break in Hollywood, in Heat. In 2008 they met once again for Righteous Kill, a credible contender for the worst film of all time.

New Empress Magazine
06/24/2012
Cannibal Holocaust: The Heart of Darkness in Film

To celebrate the upcoming launch of issue 6, our B-Movie special, Tom Cottey takes a closer look at Ruggero Deodato’s controversial exploitation flick: Cannibal Holocaust.

Little White Lies
04/19/2012
Marley - Reggae on Screen

With Kevin MacDonald's latest putting Caribbean rhythm centre stage, we remember the vibrant, incendiary and oft forgotten genre of the reggae film.

Interviews

Berlinale Talent Press
02/11/2013
PRODUCING FILMS AT THE BERLINALE

Talent Press meets a working producer and director, with a particularly personal project in the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Reviews

Berlinale Talent Press
02/09/2013
A WONDERLAND AMONG THE WASTE

Anne Kodura’s meticulously composed documentary struggles to outgrow its childlike gaze.

Permanent Plastic Helmet
11/27/2012
Sightseers - Review

When it was announced that director Ben Wheatley would follow his chilling sophomore feature Kill List with a comedy, it would have been entirely reasonable to breathe a sigh of relief...

Grolsch Film Works
08/01/2012
Big Boys Gone Bananas!* Review

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* makes for a compelling look at how multinationals work to maintain immaculate public relations.

Reviewed Online
06/14/2012
You Only Live Once Review

Made in 1937 by visionary German director Fritz Lang, shortly after he fled the Nazi regime to America, You Only Live Once is an early representation of the film noir genre in the Bonnie and Clyde mould.

New Empress Magazine
04/09/2012
Go To Blazes DVD Review

Released in 1962 Go To Blazes represents British cinema at an uneasy stylistic point: somewhere between the post-war whimsy of the Carry On films and the more dynamic, ‘swinging London’ style liberation of A Hard Days Night and the films of Michael Caine.

Reviewed Online
04/03/2012
Las Acacias Review

Las Acacias directed by Pablo Giorgelli is a beautifully crafted homage to transport.

Little White Lies
02/23/2012
Black Gold Review

Despite its craven desire for political relevance, this longwinded handling of a fairly simple story feels tame and antiquated.

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