By this moment in time, the 70s pastiche has become a genre in itself. In fact, we’re arguably in a second phase in which 70s pastiche films are directly influenced by and [...]

While the convergence of independent and mainstream cinema in the digital era has opened up all kinds of new possibilities and opportunities for professional mobility, it has [...]

A perfect fusion of indie regionalism and genre cinema, Green Room centres on a young punk band from Washington as they make their way across the Pacific Northwest. Having [...]

Over the last five years or so, there has been a natural convergence of post-cinematic technologies and the Los Angeles cityscape. As the American city most associated with [...]

Although it was a long time coming, Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising is probably the definitive post-bromance, whatever that now means. In retrospect, it feels as if the the [...]

Doll horror has been around for so long that it can be hard to make it seem fresh. Since dolls only require the slightest inflection to become terrifying, films about [...]

Over the course of Nanni Moretti’s career, there have been two separate yet related strands to his body of work: on the one hand, a highly self-referential attention to the [...]

Transplanting the Friday the 13th franchise into the new millennium was always going to be a challenge. Like so many great films, the originals thrived on limitation, since [...]

From a distance, Jason X may look like the campiest and most cynical exercise in the entire Friday the 13th franchise but in many ways it takes the spatial explorations of [...]

Bad blockbusters aren’t what they used to be. As cinema becomes less and less viable as an investment, executive producers and movie companies seem less and less willing [...]