The erotic thriller received a second life in the 2010s, when the proliferation of streaming services partially recreated the enormous straight-to-video mileu that sustained [...]

So much happened in horror between 1974 and 1986 that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, also directed by Tobe Hooper, seems to belong to a different cinematic universe from the [...]

In many ways, The Funhouse feels like a quintessential 1981 film – a perfect evocation of the cusp of the 80s as it played out in Hollywood cinema. Movies at this time were [...]

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre may just be the most visionary horror film of the last half century – a primal showdown between hippies and hicks, between the [...]

Those Who Wish Me Dead may be the masterpiece of the Sheridanverse, a searing vision of climate change set against the backdrop of his beloved Montana. The film opens [...]

The Little Things was written in 1993, and stayed in development hell for almost three decades, before finally being released in 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic. As [...]

More and more, we live in such a seamless continuum between real and virtual life – a desert of the real – that it’s almost impossible to create an uncanny valley in [...]

Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven is a manifesto for what might be clunkily called post-postmodernism – a conspicuous departure from the late postmodern aesthetic that [...]

French Kiss is one of the stranger films in both Meg Ryan and Lawrence Kasdan’s oeuvres. On the face of it, this is a breezy romcom, in which American Kate, played by Ryan, [...]

The Village was released at the very apex of M. Night Shyamalan’s career, and as a result it’s one of his most gorgeously atmospheric and lyrical films. Set in what [...]