OUT 1 (1971)
Jacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching Arrow’s release...
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
With Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story being told...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the...
DEADPOOL (2016)
Let’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the offbeat superhero,...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride & Prejudice...
THE LOBSTER (2015)
It has been clear for some time that the leading lights of the ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema would not be able to remain...
HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)
The Coen brothers’ filmography is heavily populated with desks and the men who sit behind them. In the Coens’ universe, desks serve to define...
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
Among the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II, this beloved...
GOOSEBUMPS (2015)
If you grew up in the ’90s, there’s a good chance R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps books were one of your formative forays into fiction. A...
THE WALK (2015)
The Walk is by no means perfect. In fact, it’s all too easy to pull apart, if you so desire. The dialogue is very...
MACBETH (2015)
Is it unfair to compare this latest adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth to past film adaptations of the play? Each director must find their own...
ONE & TWO (2015)
The prospect of discovering a new filmmaking talent, plus the chance to check out two of my favourite emerging young Hollywood actors, were enough...