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25/04/2018
Film Review: Beast
★★★★☆ Loosely based on the ‘Beast of Jersey’ serial killer who terrorised island residents in the 1960s, writer-director Michael Pearce’sContinue Reading
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23/04/2018
The best poker movies of all time
One of the greatest things about poker is the drama of the game itself. Just imagine the thrill professional playersContinue Reading
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22/04/2018
Criterion Review: The Awful Truth
★★★☆☆ Cary Grant will forever be one of Hollywood’s brightest stars. But icons rarely come fully formed, and Leo McCarey’sContinue Reading
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22/04/2018
DVD Review: Cure
★★★★★ A series of brutal killings, happening seemingly at random and by multiple killers, are connected by strange ‘X’ shapesContinue Reading
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20/04/2018
Animated family films still to come in 2018
Years are just twelve months during which excellent, and some not that awesome, movies are released. Every film fan greetsContinue Reading
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20/04/2018
Celebrating the strangeness of John Waters
In a sea of incredibly strange films there are thousands upon thousands of moving pictures that have made the worldContinue Reading
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18/04/2018
Why costumes and make-up are still so important to horror films
It’s hard to believe people found horror movies scary in the past. If Frankenstein’s monster or Count Dracula graced theContinue Reading
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16/04/2018
DVD Review: Early Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Three Films 1980-1983
★★★★☆ One of the most important filmmakers in Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-Hsien was once lauded as “one of the three directorsContinue Reading
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13/04/2018
Film Review: Truth or Dare
★★☆☆☆ The plot of Blumhouse’s latest horror Truth or Dare, in so far as it can be discerned by humanContinue Reading
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13/04/2018
Film Review: A Gentle Creature
★★★★☆ Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, In the Fog, Maidan) returns to fiction filmmaking with A Gentle Creature: a gloomy,Continue Reading
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12/04/2018
Film Review: Western
★★★★★ The expression goes “Home is where the heart is”, but in Valeska Grisebach’s terrific new film Western, home isContinue Reading
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12/04/2018
Interview: Xavier Legrand, dir. Custody
Xavier Legrand is an actor and director whose Just Before Losing Everything was nominated for an Academy Award for Best LiveContinue Reading
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12/04/2018
Film Review: Custody
★★★★☆ In France, a woman dies every two and a half days as a result of domestic violence. Xavier Legrand’sContinue Reading
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12/04/2018
Cannes 2018: Palme d’Or lineup announced
With the lead-up dominated by thinkpieces over Netflix’s exclusion from this year’s Cannes competition lineup, it was something of aContinue Reading
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05/04/2018
Film Review: Wonderstruck
★☆☆☆☆ In UK cinemas this Friday, acclaimed American director Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Carol) misses his target with unusuallyContinue Reading