August 2022

Kormakur: Beast (2022)

August 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

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, [...]

Peele: Nope (2022)

August 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Trachtenberg: Prey (2022)

August 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Baker: Red Rocket (2021)

August 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

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 [...]