After the austerity of his early 70s output, William Friedkin took a breath with The Brink’s Job, a heist film based on a real crime – the  Great Brink’s Robbery in [...]

What do you get when you cross the normative masculinity of the superhero genre with the defiant queer sensibility of Joel Schumacher? The answer is Batman and Robin, the [...]

The Ice Storm was Ang Lee’s first film after Sense and Sensibility – and it somehow outdoes the lush atmospherics of his first English film. Based on the 1994 novel by [...]

William Friedkin’s follow-up to The Exorcist was Sorcerer, an adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s novel The Wages of Fear, which also inspired Henri-George Clouzot’s film of [...]

From the sweeping overture, it’s clear that Spartacus is pitched at a totally different scale from Kubrick’s previous films, marking the start of an extraordinarily [...]

Stanley Kubrick’s second and best war film was set during World War I, but its message feels just as universal and existential as that of Fear and Desire, his enigmatic and [...]

Bookended by The French Connection and Sorcerer, The Exorcist is the pivotal middle term in a rough trilogy that captures the height of William Friedkin’s 1970s output. All [...]

Stanley Kubrick’s third film is still one of the greatest heist films ever made – a tightly and tautly plotted study of a group of men, led by Johnny Clay, played by [...]

Stanley Kubrick’s second film, Killer’s Kiss, was an ethereal combination of noir and neorealism, like so many of the second-wave American noirs of the 1950s, which [...]

William Friedkin’s fourth film was another amazing theatrical adaptation – this time, of Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking play, The Boys in the Band, which deals with a [...]