Curly Sue was John Hughes’ last film as a director, and it’s both his bleakest and his most sentimental work – in a word, his most dissonant. That’s all the more [...]

Written by Andy Breckman and Michael J. Leeson, and directed by Fred Schepisi, I.Q. is one of the more oddball romantic comedies of the 90s. The matchmaker here is none other [...]

Throughout the 80s, theatre became progressively more cinematic, culminating with the rise of the blockbuster rock operas of Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. Yet [...]

When asked how I experienced the 90s, I often tell people to imagine being in a room with no interface to the external world – no digital devices, no mobile phones, not [...]

By the mid-80s, directors were starting to yearn for ever more extravavant modes of cinematic excess. In the realm of comedy, even the most extreme farce wasn’t enough, [...]

Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s sprawling magnum opus, is a riotous affirmation that cinema is still a maximalist medium – and always has been since its inception. While not a [...]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is pure maximalism, intensifying the serial spectacular of Raiders of the Lost Ark until it’s like a thousand films in one film – [...]

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect adventure film, and one of Steven Spielberg’s very best films – a throwback to the golden era of weekend serials that provided [...]

I rarely find films tedious, but Drive My Car was one of them. To me, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s film felt like exactly what it was – a short story stretched into a three hour [...]

In some ways, it’s a bit surreal to see the Fyre Festival recounted on any other platform than Instagram, since it was so wedded to that particular app that it almost [...]