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Crooklyn is quite a unique film in Spike Lee’s body of work. Written by Lee and siblings Cinque and Joie Susannah Lee, it’s his most autobiographical film, and draws [...]

Tuner, Daniel Roher’s debut fictional film, continues the traditions of both Michael Mann and Paul Schrader, by revolving around a lone worker who is gradually drawn [...]

Released in 1976, the same year as Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Obsession is Brian De Palma’s purest Hitchcockian tribute, and sets the stage for his many [...]

In 1986’s America, Jean Baudrillard described the desert as possessing a dual valency in contemporary American culture. On the one hand, Baudrillard argued, the [...]

A Fistful of Dollars offers a vision of America that perhaps only a non-American could devise, and is one of the most powerful cornerstones of the revisionist westerns of the [...]

At the core of Homer’s Odyssey is what we might describe as the paradox of nostos: the narrative revolves around a homecoming whose destination is recognisable only because [...]

Directed by John M. Stahl, written by Jo Swerling and centred on a spellbinding performance from Gene Tierney, Leave Her to Heaven melds noir, melodrama, the western and the [...]

The Lost Boys may well be Joel Schumacher’s quintessential film in terms of how beautifully and elegantly it adumbrates the core question of his career: how do we preserve [...]

Many of John le Carré’s 90s novels grappled with the waning of the Cold War but The Tailor of Panama, published in 1996, was perhaps the first to truly inhabit a post-Cold [...]

Whereas I Saw The TV Glow channeled trans dysphoria through the language of 90s pop culture, Jane Schoenbrun’s third film reaches back to the 80s to capture something like [...]