Cruising is perhaps William Friedkin’s most divisive film, gaining criticism from both sides of the political spectrum when it was released in 1980, on the cusp of the AIDS [...]

90s Hollywood was peculiarly preoccupied with plastic surgery, both as the latest update on the California health fads of the Boomer generation, and as the most visceral [...]

Richard Linklater’s latest film has been billed as a mystery-comedy-drama, and it’s about as strange as that description sounds. Based on the bestselling novel by Maria [...]

Judd Apatow will probably be seen better by posterity than he has been in his own time, looking more and more like a displaced Hal Ashby in retrospect, as his bromances and [...]

For many of us, Zoom has become synonymous with screen life during the pandemic, so it makes sense that it’s the backdrop for Host, the first great work of quar horror, and [...]

Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan’s main subject matter has been time. From Following onwards, his films have all fixated themselves on an intensified present moment [...]

After the austerity of his early 70s output, William Friedkin took a breath with The Brink’s Job, a heist film based on a real crime – the  Great Brink’s Robbery in [...]

What do you get when you cross the normative masculinity of the superhero genre with the defiant queer sensibility of Joel Schumacher? The answer is Batman and Robin, the [...]

The Ice Storm was Ang Lee’s first film after Sense and Sensibility – and it somehow outdoes the lush atmospherics of his first English film. Based on the 1994 novel by [...]