Not only is Texas Chainsaw 3D the best release in the franchise since the high watermark of the 2003 remake, but it’s the closest that any film in the cycle comes to a [...]

Back to the Future may be the quintessential American film of the 80s – in its mood and tone, in the way it captures the collective fantasy of the 50s as the driving spirit [...]

The Hunted is a gem in William Friedkin’s later filmography and a continuation of the globalised paranoia of his classic string of releases in the 1970s. It opens with a [...]

American Ninja takes the classic action film to an utter apex of absurdity, offering up a hyperbolised vision of sigma masculinity that revels in its own silliness. Michael [...]

Talk to Me, the debut film from Michael and Danny Philippou, starts in the middle of a labyrinthine house party. We follow an unnamed character through one room after [...]

American Flyers was screenwriter Steve Teisch’s spiritual sequel to Breaking Away, often considered to be the greatest cycling film of all time. It’s also director John [...]

In his first three works set in Hong Kong, it felt as if Wong Kar-wai was moving towards a profoundly ambitious project: to craft a film about people who share experiences [...]

The shadow of the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hung heavy over the remainder of the franchise. No director since the original had managed to recapture and even [...]

So overwhelmed with dread and doom was the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that it felt like a full stop on the franchise. Not only did it appear impossible to [...]

The 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre marked the start of a shift in the millennial horror zeitgeist. Much as The Blair Witch Project had formalised found footage [...]