The B-noirs of the 1940s often had a complicated relation to misogyny and femininity. On the one hand, these films produced spectacle by devising ever more ingenious and [...]

The Woman in the Window is one of those unusual films, like A Quiet Place Part II, that exists somewhere between the pre-pandemic and pandemic worlds. The novel it was based [...]

Guy Hamilton was the Bond auteur par excellence – the director who most understood that the best Bond films aren’t driven by character, by narrative, or even by action, [...]

Although Live and Let Die marked the appearance of a new Bond in Roger Moore, it formed the third part of an unofficial trilogy of films directed by Guy Hamilton. Of the [...]

During the 1950s, the emergence of television put pressure on cinema to reassert itself as a cultural spectacle. Directors and producers responded with all kinds of [...]

As the thot horror cycle of the 2010s progressed, directors became clearer about the real subject matter of these black erotic thrillers – the precarity of the black female [...]

By the early 1950s, the screwball generation, and the first generation of sound actors, were starting to come of age. Few films captured that generational shift quite as [...]

During the late 40s and early 50s, film noir started to shift towards systems narratives – stories that retained the claustrophobic doom of classical noir, but transplanted [...]

The black erotic thrillers of the late 00s and mid 10s were typically studies in black female middle-class anxiety – and none more so than No Good Deed. Set mainly over one [...]

A Quiet Place was perhaps the pinnacle of the sensory deprivation horror of the late 2010s – the last of a plethora of films that tried to reinvest the multiplex with a new [...]