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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 [...]

Office Killer, Cindy Sherman’s only feature film, was clearly a genuine stab at a Hollywood career, and not just a curiosity to be displayed in art galleries. Produced by [...]

Curry Barker’s Obsession is a reworking of Fatal Attraction for the era of toxic codependency – and watching it in a full cinema, I could imagine how it must have felt to [...]

Andre Øvredal has a real knack for highly contained horror premises – chamber dramas that never feel like filmed theatre. Both The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Last Voyage [...]