Few films capture the cloistered-connected dyad of 80s teendom like Reckless, the directorial debut of James Foley, the screenwriting debut of Chris Columbus and the acting [...]

The Comfort of Strangers marks the meeting of three quite distinct artistic minds. Directed by Paul Schrader, the screenplay by Harold Pinter is based on an early novella by [...]

One of the most plangent and revelatory works of neorealism, Shoeshine is one of Vittorio De Sica’s great tributes to the Italian children who were dispossessed and [...]

Parallel Mothers is Pedro Almodovar’s film about the return of fascism – both as a generational memory of Franco’s Spain and, more urgently, as a political horizon that [...]

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 [...]