A moving, complex mother-daughter study is occasionally swamped by the hyper-twee styling of Deborah Haywood's thoroughly singular debut. Cinema was littered with tales of teenage mean girls well ...

Throughout history, tailors, dressmakers, quilters, and DIY-ers have been in one common position. Losing a pin or needle. Some are never to be seen again, most unfortunately, are found once it’s been ...

I do, and I wish I didn’t, at least most of the time. But, yeah, I used them, along with thousands of others who employed them for about 25 years, when snagging salmon was a legal activity on New York ...

Deborah Haywood’s feature debut heralds a tough, distinctive new voice in British film I have rarely been as troubled by a film as I was, on two separate viewings, by Pin Cushion. A study of the ...

When a socially awkward teen and her outcast mother become targets for the petty and cruel denizens of their small town, they seek refuge in an elaborate fantasy world of their own making.

Pin Cushion starts in Indie 101 territory. Mother and daughter, the mother in odd shoes, the daughter in a pink knitted bobble hat, are driving in a camper van carrying a bird cage. It could be the ...

Small-minded, smalltown Britain is the setting for Deborah Haywood’s impressive debut feature, which successfully balances fairytale whimsy with dark realism. Teenaged Iona (striking newcomer Lily ...