HUSH (2016)
[usr 3.0] A fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[usr 5.0] While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to...
THE X-FILES (1998) • THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008)
He’s the obsessed FBI agent who desperately wants to believe. She’s the cynical FBI agent who wears a cross around her neck and can...
HEAT (1995)
[usr 5.0] Michael Mann’s Heat is essentially a ‘cops and robbers’ story. But, of course, it’s also a hell of a lot more than...
BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)
[usr 4.0] Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to...
SICARIO (2015)
[usr 4.5] 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...
NO ESCAPE (2015)
[usr 2.0] Try not to take the title of No Escape too seriously. If you’ve seen any of the trailers you’ll know that there...
VIDEODROME (1983)
[usr 4.0] David Cronenberg’s seminal 1983 body horror Videodrome begins with a shot of a TV screen and ends with its main character re-enacting...
STOKER (2013)
[usr 3.0] 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...