Every John Wick film so far has amped up Chad Stahelski’s vision, and Chapter 4 is no exception. It’s the best in the series, and a worthy conclusion if the series [...]

There seems to be a trend whereby critics feel compelled to disavow films that revel too openly in cinephilia. Perhaps it’s because they feel that cinephilia is their [...]

Courage Under Fire is a remarkably atmospheric thriller, starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan as a pair of soldiers who never have the chance to meet each other. Haunted [...]

In many ways, Chapter 2 is the most confounding film in the Insidious cycle – a contorted, expository and frequently incoherent sequel-prequel that seems to realise that [...]

Written by Tony Gilroy and directed by Taylor Hackford, Proof of Life feels like a late addition to William Friedkin’s globalisation trilogy of the 1970s – The French [...]

After a horror decade that was driven largely by torture and found footage, Indisious marked a return to the classic haunted house, but with a few twists. Written by Leigh [...]

Scream 5 got the rebooted franchise off to a fairly shaky start, but with Scream 6 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have started to move out of the long shadow of Wes [...]

From the cheesy opening intertitles, which present a series of facts about black bears, and then attribute them to Wikipedia, Cocaine Bear is a throwback to the instant cult [...]

When a Man Loves a Woman was one of the most tender romances of the early 90s and remains one of the most empathic, sensitive and yearning films that Hollywood has ever [...]

One of my biggest cinematic disappointments of the last five years was that 2018’s Searching never eventuated into an entire screenlife genre, as was originally planned. [...]