Creature Features

Tykes in Flight: Social Mobility and Falconry in Kes (1969) Ken Loach’s Kes (1969) is an extraordinarily empathetic production that needs little introduction. As well as helping to cement British social realism as one of the country’s most significant cultural movements, Loach’s body of work provides UK cinema with a degree of conscience, articulated through the exploration of debates such as immigration, colonialism, poverty, workers’ rights, and social justice. As the director’s second feature film, …

Tykes in Flight: Social Mobility and Falconry in Kes (1969)

Ken Loach’s Kes (1969) is an extraordinarily empathetic production that needs little introduction. As well as helping to cement British social realism as one of the country’s most significant cultural movements, Loach’s body of work…

Brussels’ misguided beef with veggie burgers Banning plant-based products with meaty names is exactly the kind of red tape the EU said it had left behind

Brussels’ misguided beef with veggie burgers - The Financial Times

Labour’s animal welfare strategy does not go far enough | Letters Letters: Readers respond to the government’s plans to improve the lot of animals

Labour’s animal welfare strategy does not go far enough | Animal welfare | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Comic Cryptids and Eco-Sustainability in Sasquatch Sunset (2024) I’ve always had a soft spot for cryptozoology, the pseudoscientific field of fascination with unsubstantiated creatures. Who can resist the romantic allure of the Loch Ness Monster that supposedly …

What is it that fuels our fascination with Bigfoot and Sasquatch? When did the beast first stamp its way across our imagination and what might it have to teach us about our relationship to the environment? Find out more in this article about the Zellner Bros' film, Sasquatch Sunset (2024).

Capturing Animals in Motion Have you seen this image before? If you have, it’s almost certainly because someone has attempted to illustrate an example of early photographic motion to you. These distinct silhouettes of a gallo…

Galloping racehorses, murder, exploitation, and the birth of cinema - read the new post on Creature Features!

Frankenstein (2025) and Vegetarian Monstrosity Guillermo del Toro loves monsters. If there is any connective thread that runs through the director’s work, it is the very-same that the zealous Frankenstein uses to stitch together the patchwork f…

Did you know Frankenstein's creature was a vegetarian? Find out more in the inaugural post of a new blog, Creature Features, dedicated to animal welfare on screen!