cinema

Sherman: Office Killer (1997)

June 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Office Killer, Cindy Sherman’s only feature film, was clearly a genuine stab at a Hollywood career, and not just a curiosity to be displayed in art galleries. Produced by [...]

Barker: Obsession (2025)

May 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

Curry Barker’s Obsession is a reworking of Fatal Attraction for the era of toxic codependency – and watching it in a full cinema, I could imagine how it must have felt to [...]

Øvredal: Passenger (2026)

May 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

Andre Øvredal has a real knack for highly contained horror premises – chamber dramas that never feel like filmed theatre. Both The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Last Voyage [...]

Buñuel: Nazarin (1959)

May 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

Based on the 1895 novel by Benito Perez Galdos and often considered one of the greatest films in Luis Buñuel’s Mexican period, Nazarin invests the picaresque wandering of [...]

Aja: High Tension (2003)

May 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

Like so many films in the New French Extremity, Alexandre Aja’s High Tension is a home invasion drama, inflected in this case through the hick horror of The Texas Chainsaw [...]

Layton: Crime 101 (2026)

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Bart Layton’s Crime 101 is a loving pastiche to Michael Mann’s vision of Los Angeles, and to Heat in particular, revolving around a literal highway robber, Chris [...]

Kasdan: Dreamcatcher (2003)

May 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

Dreamcatcher has to be one of the most audacious of all Stephen King adaptations, if only because it hews so closely to what is one of his weirdest novels. It’s so strange [...]

Moll: Case 137 (2025)

May 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Dominik Moll’s Case 137 is a deceptively complex dramatisation of the 2018 Yellow Vests Protests from the perspective of Stephanie Bertrand, an investigator with the police [...]