Adam Lowes

★★★★☆ Decades before the phrase was put through the commercial wringer, hipster culture was brought to the fore via the films of singular US...

★★★★☆ In director Joe Dante’s endearing 1989 horror comedy The ‘Burbs, starring Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher, “love thy neighbour” is a term mostly...

★★☆☆☆ Nicholas Stoller’s 2014 US comedy Bad Neighbours is a tired and contrived effort which once again posits Rogen as an adult fighting with...

★★☆☆☆ In the wake of Academy Award-winning American actor Robin Williams’ tragic and untimely death last month, it was arguably the work outside of...

★★★☆☆ The BFI really do take an exhaustive approach to their film seasons. To tie-in with the forthcoming Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder,...

★★☆☆☆ Having one of your lead characters nonchalantly reference Jim Thompson, surely the master of twisted, sweaty Southern noir fiction, means you’re already setting...

★★★☆☆ French actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet’s first foray into English-language cinema, Blood Ties (2013) is a self-consciously styled paean to 1970s cinema – namely the...

★★★☆☆ A Parisian romantic comedy sprinkled with more than a touch of whimsy, Agnès Jaoui’s Under the Rainbow (2013) reaches for an Allen-like vibe...