William Friedkin’s third film, The Night They Raided Minsky’s, was billed as being a period piece about the origin of striptease, but it’s really a broader tribute to [...]

William Friedkin’s second film was an adaptation of The Birthday Party, one of Harold Pinter’s first plays, making this a watershed moment in the career of both artists. [...]

One of the biggest traits of 90s Hollywood was the trend towards hermetically sealed, slightly sci-fi visions of 50s domesticity. From Edward Scissorhands to Pleasantville, [...]

Contagion is the spiritual sequel to Outbreak, responding to the rise of coronaviruses in the early 2000s much as Outbreak responded to the rise of ebola and haemorrhagic [...]

Twixt is Francis Ford Coppola’s last film to date, but it barely feels realised as a film – more a strange, stillborn epilogue to his career. While it’s part of the [...]

In retrospect, The Godfather Part III plays like a prequel to The Sopranos, so it will be interesting to see whether the series’ own prequel film, Young Tony, will play out [...]

Francis Ford Coppola closed out the 80s with Tucker: The Man and His Dream, a biopic of Preston Tucker, played by Jeff Bridges, the car designer who tried to take on the Big [...]

Gardens of Stone is probably the least watched of Francis Ford Coppola’s 80s films, but one of the most interesting, since in its own modest way it forms a spiritual sequel [...]

Francis Ford Coppola crafted his most beautiful film of the 1980s with Peggy Sue Got Married, a nostalgic fantasia that sees housewife Peggy Sue Bodell (Kathleen Turner) [...]

The Cotton Club was Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest shot at a blockbuster during the 80s, and remains his most concerted effort to replicate the stately scale and scope of [...]