HIGH-RISE (2015)
byLife for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control in Ben Wheatley’s adaptation of J.G Ballard’s novel…
GENRE: THRILLER
THE ONES BELOW (2015)
byTo 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…
GREEN ROOM (2015)
byGreen Room doesn’t mess around. Clocking in at a lean 94-minutes, this riveting and claustrophobic thriller doesn’t waste time and shows that writer-director Jeremy…
HUSH (2016)
byA fleeting glance of Hush while browsing Netflix and you’d be forgiven for having a reflexive urge to keep scrolling. ‘A young woman living…
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
byWhile the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the…
THE X-FILES (1998) • THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008)
byHe’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)
byMichael 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 (2015)
byBridge 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)
byDo 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)
byTry 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)
byDavid 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)
byPark 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…