When Sea of Love was released in 1989 Al Pacino hadn’t been in a film for four years – the longest gap in his career to date. His last film, Revolution, had also been a [...]

Twister was Jan De Bont’s spiritual sequel to Speed – his effort to outspeed Speed – and amazingly it worked. Like Speed, it’s about a man caught up in a woman’s [...]

The Farrelly brothers arguably peaked with There’s Something About Mary, a caustic slice of anti-80s nostalgia that marked the precise moment when grossout comedy started [...]

Body of Evidence was released shortly after Basic Instinct, and it’s so similar to Basic Instinct, at least in its first act, that it doesn’t really make sense to [...]

Few films capture the look and feel of a certain brand of 90s Gothic like The Bone Collector. Based on the novel of the same name by Jeffery Deaver, it follows two very [...]

The Sex and the City films were always meant to comprise a trilogy, but they ended prematurely when Kim Cattrall pulled out of the third instalment. In lieu of that closing [...]

Indecent Proposal was Adrian Lyne’s spiritual sequel to Fatal Attraction – and it’s a fascinating benchmark for how the erotic thriller had shifted in the previous six [...]

In 1987, Ted Bundy was on the verge of execution, Carroll Cole had recently been executed and Gary Ridgway was deep into the Green River murders – the most sustained serial [...]

Making a second Sex and the City film was both a necessity and a bold move. The first film exhausted the series’ narrative in such a dramatic way that there had to be a [...]

In retrospect, the genuinely great moments of Sex and the City were very few and far between. At its core, the series provided an electrifying vision of female friendship [...]