heat (1995)

HEAT (1995)

Michael Mann’s Heat is essentially a ‘cops and robbers’ story. But, of course, it’s also a hell of a lot more than that. Unlike...

bridge of spies

BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)

Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the...

SICARIO (2015)

Do you like your meticulously-paced and superbly-shot action movies with a side order of bleak nihilism? You’re in luck: Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario may well...

NO ESCAPE (2015)

Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there are, of...

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...

STOKER (2013)

Park Chan-wook’s Stoker is a film with a curious DNA. Directed by the man who brought South Korean cinema to the masses with his highly regarded...