At first glance, Netflix’s Ozark seems like a prime example of what might be called late quality television – a movement that arguably started with AMC’s Low Winter [...]
Suffused with a heightened, stylised, self-conscious sense of cool, and immaculately curated at every turn, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver may not work all that consistently as [...]
In some ways, Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up, Philip played as two antithetical films. In the first half, we were treated to Alex Schwartzman’s performance of Philip, a [...]
The 2017 remake of Baywatch has been widely panned, which is unusual, given that Seth Gordon’s version retains much of what made the original charming – the shameless [...]
One of the most bracing Netflix releases of 2018, The End of the F***ing World is based on Charles S. Forsman’s graphic novel of the same name, which follows a pair of [...]
The Trip to Spain is the third film in Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s culinary travelogues and, from the tone of it, probably the last as well. While it resembles the first [...]
Over the last couple of years there’s been a movement towards horror films that engage more consciously with the ways in which horror tropes might code assumptions about [...]
In our day and age, there’s no dearth of a certain kind of queer visibility, but it’s still somewhat rare to see depictions of LGBT collectivity on the big and small [...]
In some ways, the small-scale terrorist attacks that have become so prominent in recent years pose even more challenges to representation – both cinematic and otherwise – [...]
One of the grimmest and most nihilistic horror films of the 2000s, The Strangers was so unrelenting and enduring in its vision that it seemed to have precluded a sequel, [...]