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Like so many films in the New French Extremity, Alexandre Aja’s High Tension is a home invasion drama, inflected in this case through the hick horror of The Texas Chainsaw [...]

Bart Layton’s Crime 101 is a loving pastiche to Michael Mann’s vision of Los Angeles, and to Heat in particular, revolving around a literal highway robber, Chris [...]

Dreamcatcher has to be one of the most audacious of all Stephen King adaptations, if only because it hews so closely to what is one of his weirdest novels. It’s so strange [...]

Dominik Moll’s Case 137 is a deceptively complex dramatisation of the 2018 Yellow Vests Protests from the perspective of Stephanie Bertrand, an investigator with the police [...]

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is the second of his historical films to hit screens in 2025. Like Blue Moon it revolves around a flashpoint in twentieth century culture [...]

Apparently Robert Altman was hesitant to direct The Company which is peculiar because Barbara Turner’s screenplay could almost be a homage to Altman’s own cinematic [...]

Written by Matthew Robinson and directed by Gore Verbinski, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die attempts to grapple with our current AI tipping-point. The main character is [...]

In adapting Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell has been faced with a bit of a conundrum. On the other hand this is clearly a novel that is enormously significant to her, both [...]

Project Hail Mary has defied my expectations more than any other blockbuster released in the last year. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, who also brought us The Martian, it [...]

Father Mother Sister Brother belongs to a sizeable subsection of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre: works that exist somewhere between feature-length films and compilations of short [...]