Beast is a crisp, clinical and efficient genre film, about a rogue lion stalking four characters on safari in South Africa – Nate Samuels, a doctor played by Idris Elba, [...]
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie was Bruce Beresford’s first film, and while he’s more or less disowned it, it stands up as one of the wittier and more provocative Aussie [...]
Throughout his burgeoning body of work, Jordan Peele has steadily traced a line from horror to science fiction, using his reboot of The Twilight Zone to explore ever more [...]
The fallout from Peeping Tom propelled Michael Powell into some strange projects during the last two decades of his career, but none was quite so incongruous as his direction [...]
Walk Into Paradise sits around the middle of Chips Rafferty’s career, and offers a fascinating vision of both the Australian adventure genre, and Australian perceptions of [...]
With 10 Cloverfield Lane, Dan Trachtenberg reinvented what a franchise could be, and he’s repeated that process with Prey – as radical a reinvention as Predator 2, and an [...]
Over his last few films, Sean Baker has mounted a retreat from what Scott Herring describes as queer urbanism – the assumption that cosmopolitan American cities, especially [...]
A film that now feels lost to time, Fire in the Sky is a dramatization of the Travis Walton UFO Incident, which took place just outside Snowflake, Arizona in 1975. Walton and [...]