With The Hunger, Tony Scott had already debuted a fully-formed style, and it only took his second film for that style to reach its apotheosis, accelerating him into ever more [...]

The Hunger, Tony Scott’s first film, is a remarkably accomplished debut – all style, swagger and poise, shot through with the postural melodrama that would become so [...]

Beverly Hills Cop is a strange film to experience forty years later. At the time, it was clearly a phenomenon – breaking box office records, providing Eddie Murphy with one [...]

Few horror films linger at the fringes of your thought like Rosemary’s Baby, since Polanski’s command of his subject matter is so subliminal that even the most overt [...]

Along with Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line marked a return to WWII after Vietnam had dominated war cinema for the past two decades. It also marked Malick’s return [...]

Freaky Friday updated the 1976 classic, by way of the 1995 telemovie, for the early 2000s. Like its two precedessors, it’s about a mother-daughter body swap and, like the [...]

Few films feel so precious to me as The First Wives Club. As a child who was predominantly raised by my mother in the 90s, it was rare to see flattering depictions of single [...]

Darren Aronofsky’s Pi was one of a number of films that anticipated the millennium as a singularity and sublimity that defied the very language of cinema itself. It follows [...]

Over his last few films, Guillermo del Toro has moved away from overt horror or science fiction, and has focused instead on a more canivalesque style – a process that will [...]

Astonishingly, House of Gucci was Ridley Scott’s second film in 2021, the second full year of the pandemic. Scott is now 84, which makes the fact of the film even more [...]