Van Morrison: Blowin’ Your Mind! (1967)
Although Blowin’ Your Mind! is technically Van Morrison’s first solo album it feels more like a work in transition. In his short work with Them, Van had pushed to the [...]
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Alvarez: Alien: Romulus (2024)
The two iterations of the Alien franchise each possess a distinct conception of the xenomorph, despite their internal differences. Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien [...]
Chung: Twisters (2024)
Of all the recent efforts to reboot 80s and 90s cinema properties, Twisters is one of the most successful, and really exceeded my own expectations. Written by Mark L. Smith, [...]
Miller: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
The Road Warrior is a huge leap forward in the Mad Max franchise and in some ways feels like the film that George Miller wanted to make all along. The opening is mythic and [...]
Miller: Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max is Australian cinema’s defining dystopian mythology, a primordial fusion of man and machine. It takes place almost entirely on Australian highways and continually [...]
McGuire: Night Swim (2024)
Bryce McGuire’s first feature, Night Swim, is an adaptation of his award-winning short film of the same name, and it has a disarmingly brilliant premise: what if a swimming [...]
Linklater: Hit Man (2024)
Richard Linklater’s latest film, and his first for Netflix, is a loose adaptation of the life of Gary Johnson, played here by Glenn Powell, who came to the public’s [...]
LaGravenese: A Family Affair (2024)
For my money, Richard LaGravenese’s A Family Affair, which has been roundly pilloried by critics, is the most underrated film of 2024 so far. On the face of it, Carrie [...]
Guadagnino: Challengers (2024)
Challengers may well come to be seen as one of the most significant moments in a growing movement to relibidinse cinema again now that the stranglehold of Marvel has passed. [...]
Glazer: The Zone of Interest (2023)
The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film, may be the most terrifying vision of the Holocaust that I have seen on the big screen. For the most part, films treat [...]