Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is a semi-autobiographical account of his experience growing up as the child of first-generation Korean immigrant farmers in rural Arkansas in the [...]

Thomas Vinterberg has spent much of the past decade looking awry at his roots in the Dogme 95 movement. While his films have strayed from Dogme more than ever before, [...]

Big Daddy marked a number of firsts in Adam Sandler’s career – the first film where he really played an adult, the first father-son drama, the first film set in an urban [...]

By the time it reached streaming screens in 2021, The Empty Man was so buried that it might as well have never existed. Although filming wrapped in 2017, 21st Century Fox [...]

Even tighter and tauter than Mean Streets, Taxi Driver remains Martin Scorsese’s definitive statement – the vision of urbanity, masculinity and New York identity that [...]

How do you make a revenge film about the #MeToo movement? That’s the question posed by Emerald Fennell’s brilliant debut, which follows a medical school dropout who sets [...]

The 39 Steps was arguably Alfred Hitchcock’s most adventurous adaptation at the time that it was released. It’s based on the novel by John Buchan, published in 1915, [...]

The Waterboy marks the end of Adam Sandler’s golden period, taking elements from Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer and crafting them into a synthesis that [...]

After perfecting his comic persona in Billy Madison, and relaxing it slightly in Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler experimented with dissociating its two component parts in his [...]

The Dry is a pretty passable adaptation of a fairly readable novel – it’s not going to seriously disappoint any fans of the book but it never quite blooms into a film on [...]