Charlie Gaskell

Charlie has written 32 articles for York Vision.

Review: Val (2021)

It’s admirable to see a performer have his voice torn to shreds and manage to find his most honest and earnest expression in years

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Our Albums of 2021

Our team share their favourite albums of the year.

Music 2 years ago

Review: Don’t Look Up

Shouty, sweary and occasionally funny. But not nearly funny enough.

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Interview: Helen O’Hara

Film journalist Helen O'Hara talks Vision through her exploration of women vs. the male-dominated history of Hollywood.

Books 2 years ago

Review: Last Night in Soho

'Soho? So so! Wright’s picturesque vision of a sinister 60s terrifies and delights, until suddenly, it doesn’t’

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York Travel Guide

The best the area has to offer. Just a walk, bus or train away...

Travel 3 years ago

YSC: Films to See

Vision's Term 1 guide to York Student Cinema.

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Review: The Sparks Brothers

It’s right that a documentary about two musicians driven by passion and individualism should be made by someone so positively determined to do the same.

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Interview: Dane Baptiste

“Just comedy in it’s most simple form, tragedy plus timing” – Dane Baptiste’s latest ‘The Chocolate Chip’ tour promises a perceptive preaching of comedic truths.

Stage 3 years ago

Punk Rock Love Story: The Weird World of Dinner in America

"When I'm thinking of a film, I think of it as a separate reality"...Vision chats with Adam Rehmeier about movies, music and meals in the American midwest

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Review: America: The Motion Picture

Like an animated take on drunk history, this hiccup from Lord and Miller is a twist on the American revolution, which rambles on with the incoherent slurs and burps of a history teacher whose had one too many.

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Review: Fear Street Part 1: 1994

Netflix introduces us to the first part of a ‘Scream-esque’ slasher with splatters of ‘Stranger Things’, a confident blast which is enough to give R.L Stine goosebumps

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Review: Army of the Dead

Lacking the stylistic flair or distinctiveness of his first undead attempt, it succeeds at the basics of blood splattered action. Entertainment – nothing more, nothing less.

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Ingrid Goes West: The Rise of Social Media Movies

Vision spent some time tracking the trendiest sub-genre of the digital age

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Review: Black Bear

A Lynchian take on the grizzly world of artistic creation? Bear with, it’s actually quite good.

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Review: Palm Springs

The time-loop movie you’ll want to watch again, again and again

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