VIDEODROME (1983)
David Cronenberg’s seminal 1983 body horror Videodrome begins with a shot of a TV screen and ends with its main character re-enacting what he’s...
FANTASTIC FOUR (2015)
There’s no way to argue otherwise; the main reason a Fantastic Four reboot’s been made is so the rights can stay with 20th Century Fox. The situation...
HANNIBAL, 3.9 – ‘And the Woman Clothed With the Sun…’
We’re two episodes into Hannibal‘s version of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon and, so far, the biggest surprise is how faithful an adaptation it’s been. Opening where last...
HUMANS – series one, episode eight
Had this been the last episode of Humans ever, it would be easier to be more vitriolic about the ways it disappointed me, but with...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.7 – ‘Black Maps and Motel Rooms’
Among the many problems I have with season two of True Detective, probably the main one is the show’s insistence on writing cheques its...
IT FOLLOWS (2014)
It Follows opens with a shot of a quiet, average suburban street, with the seeming calm of the camera’s slow pan across the neighbourhood interrupted...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION (2015)
There’s never enough at stake in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It whizzes along at a quip-a-minute, with stunning stunts from handsome Tom Cruise, and...
GHOSTBUSTERS: I Ain’t Afraid of No Girls
Any moviegoer would have predicted Ghostbusters to become one of the most sequelled movies ever, but the 1984 comedy’s live-action hopes fizzled after 1989’s poorly-received follow-up—which had fun moments,...
HANNIBAL, 3.8 – ‘The Great Red Dragon’
Let’s start with the most unmistakably meta moment in “The Great Red Dragon,” which occurs when Dr. Chilton (Raúl Esparza) visits the now-incarcerated Dr....
HUMANS – series one, episode seven
Well, Humans certainly isn’t dragging its heels now, is it? Unsurprising, perhaps, given that this is the penultimate episode, but the level of incident...
TRUE DETECTIVE, 2.6 – ‘Church in Ruins’
If the first season of True Detective felt like the work of a TV writer who’d read far too many novels (with its heavy doses...
SOUTHPAW (2015)
There’s a theory espoused by former Grantland editor Bill Simmons that sometimes people are just ready for certain movies; that the success of some...