20 Years On: THE FRIGHTENERS
On 19 July 1996, Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS was released to disappointing box office sales, but 20 years later it's clearly an important transitional movie for the LORD OF THE RINGS director...
COCOON (1985)
After a group of old men start swimming in a pool full of alien cocoons, they become rejuvenated with youthful vigour, in Ron Howard's 1985 sci-fi drama...
ANOMALISA (2015)
A man, crippled by the mundanity of his life, experiences something out of the ordinary in this stop-motion animation from Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson...
GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)
Following an invasion of ghosts across Manhattan, paranormal experts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan, band together to stop this otherworldly threat.
HIGH-RISE (2015)
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control in Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G Ballard's novel...
SATAN’S BLADE (1984)
Satan’s Blade is indicative of the archetypal quality and budgets of 1980s ‘video nasties’. It’s an inexpensive slasher film mimicking the tried and tested...
MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015)
It’s been more than a decade since Rebecca Miller’s harrowing directorial debut, Angela (2015), and although her subsequent films (Personal Velocity, The Ballad of...
THE ONES BELOW (2015)
To say The Ones Below is inspired by the films of Roman Polanski would be a gross understatement. Motherhood-inflected horror, the conflict between pairs of...
QUEEN OF EARTH (2015)
Continuing on a path started during filming breaks on TV’s Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss is building an impressive resume of roles in US indies...
30 Years On: BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA was released across the US on this day, 30 years ago. To celebrate, we've investigated the origins of this flop summer movie from 1987 that became a cult favourite...
A BIGGER SPLASH (2015)
Following on from his Oscar-nominated film I Am Love, Italian director Luca Guadagino explores desire in the sun-drenched A Bigger Splash. A remake of...
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (2016)
It’s no overstatement to say that Illumination Entertainment owes its success to the Despicable Me films, with its incoherent but popular spin-off Minions also achieving...