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Although Live and Let Die marked the appearance of a new Bond in Roger Moore, it formed the third part of an unofficial trilogy of films directed by Guy Hamilton. Of the [...]

During the 1950s, the emergence of television put pressure on cinema to reassert itself as a cultural spectacle. Directors and producers responded with all kinds of [...]

As the thot horror cycle of the 2010s progressed, directors became clearer about the real subject matter of these black erotic thrillers – the precarity of the black female [...]

By the early 1950s, the screwball generation, and the first generation of sound actors, were starting to come of age. Few films captured that generational shift quite as [...]

During the late 40s and early 50s, film noir started to shift towards systems narratives – stories that retained the claustrophobic doom of classical noir, but transplanted [...]

The black erotic thrillers of the late 00s and mid 10s were typically studies in black female middle-class anxiety – and none more so than No Good Deed. Set mainly over one [...]

A Quiet Place was perhaps the pinnacle of the sensory deprivation horror of the late 2010s – the last of a plethora of films that tried to reinvest the multiplex with a new [...]

During the late 2000s and early 2010s, the erotic thriller took on new life as a black genre – spearheaded largely by Obsessed, a remake of Fatal Attraction, the flagship [...]

Diamonds Are Forever marked Guy Hamilton’s return to the James Bond franchise, and it’s every bit as innovative as Goldfinger, marking Hamilton as the best Bond director [...]

Charles Shyer’s remake of Father of the Bride is one of my “safe space” films, so it was quite uncanny to go back and rewatch the Vincente Minnelli original – all the [...]