Apart from Paul Verhoeven, no director was more associated with the erotic thriller than Adrian Lyne. He pioneered the genre with Fatal Attraction, released Indecent Proposal [...]

Steven Soderbergh is one of the few directors working today who still makes films that are acutely spatially oriented, even if they are ultimately about the devolution of [...]

One of the more underrated film in Steven Spielberg’s long career, Catch Me If You Can is an adaptation of the autobiography of Frank Abnegale (Leonardo DiCaprio), a [...]

Elephant was the second film in Gus Van Sant’s Death Trilogy, though in many ways it feels more like a spiritual sequel to My Own Private Idaho. Like that film, it’s [...]

After capturing Robert Crumb so evocatively in his 1994 documentary, Terry Zwigoff was the natural choice to direct an adaptation of Ghost World, Daniel Clowes’ cult [...]

2000 was a breakout year for Steven Soderbergh, who cemented his burgeoning digital style with two superb information thrillers – Traffic and Erin Brockovich. Both of these [...]

Lake Placid is now something of a lost classic, buried in time like so many other mid-budget movies of the 90s. That’s a shame because it’s a brilliant genre piece, [...]

Since Bond films subsist on set pieces, most of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore releases had a distinct spatial signature. No director managed to innovate with space quite [...]

With The Hunger, Tony Scott had already debuted a fully-formed style, and it only took his second film for that style to reach its apotheosis, accelerating him into ever more [...]

The Hunger, Tony Scott’s first film, is a remarkably accomplished debut – all style, swagger and poise, shot through with the postural melodrama that would become so [...]