Now that the millennium has passed into history and even the Mayan prophecies of 2012 are a distant memory, what does the next apocalyptic horizon look like in American [...]

The Killer, David Fincher’s latest film, and his first Netflix film, opens with a profound gesture of negation. In a sustained opening scene, we meet the title character, [...]

Ridley Scott’s second French period piece in as many years is a biopic of Napoleon – and a biopic that in many ways aspires to be as grand and bombastic as Abel Gance’s [...]

In one sense, Thanksgiving is a loose continuation of Grindhouse, Eli Roth’s 2007 collaboration with Quentin Tarantino. As part of that project, Roth and Tarantino released [...]

Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s second film, is every bit as spectacular as Promising Young Woman, and perhaps every bit as wilfully misunderstood by critics too. Set in 2006, [...]

Opera may not be Dario Argento’s best film but in many ways it is the purest distillation of his vision. It also concludes his classic giallo era by present the genre as a [...]

Phenomena is one of the strangest and most spectacular films in Dario Argento’s body of work. In large part that’s because it’s the first of his works that feels like a [...]

The early 90s saw a lull in the American horror scene. The great slasher cycles were coming to a close and it was still a few years before Scream would usher in the [...]

With Opera, Dario Argento hit the height of his powers – it was impossible to imagine him crystallising or apotheosising the giallo genre in a more complete way. [...]

As the title suggests, Four Flies on Grey Velvet is the most abstract film in Dario Argento’s first trilogy. Both The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and The Cat O’Nine [...]