With Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese crafted the film he had been yearning for from the very beginning of his career, while also providing the definitive counterpoint to Francis [...]

With the 1993 version of The Vanishing, George Sluizer remade his 1988 Dutch classic – this time with an American cast and for an American audience. The plot remains just [...]

During the early 90s, there was a convergence of theatrical releases and daytime melodramas. As directors looked for new ways to cement the lush aesthetic that was all the [...]

Bill Murray made the neurotic his stock in trade throughout the 80s but he reached new height with the role of Bob Wiley, “an almost paralysed multiphobic personality in a [...]

In Sleeping with the Enemy, Joseph Ruben established himself as a master of mise-en-scene, generating so much stillness, silence and poise that décor became a character in [...]

Internal Affairs was Mike Figgis’ third film, and his first big blockbuster, and it’s every bit as gorgeously atmospheric as Stormy Monday, his breakthrough release. As [...]

Quick Change is one of the more unusual films of Bill Murray’s career – and not just because it’s the only film he co-directed. It’s ostensibly a heist film, but it [...]

Like so many of Stephen King’s works, Misery, and Rob Reiner’s adaptation of Misery, is an operatic horror-comedy about the experience of composing a novel. This time [...]

The early 1990s represented a watershed moment in cinematic depictions of the serial killer. By this point, the generation who grew up with the emergence of serial killers [...]

Sleeping with the Enemy begins with an almost impossibly immaculate mise-en-scene – Julia Roberts against a burnished beach backdrop, poised midway between Mystic Pizza and [...]