Over the last couple of years, there has a been a sudden outpouring of films about key moments in the #MeToo movement. Now that assault has suddenly become a possibility in [...]

It’s hard to overestimate the impact of The Godfather in American cinema, and American popular culture more generally – so hard that it can be equally difficult to [...]

Francis Ford Coppola’s first shot at a big budget movie was Finian’s Rainbow, the first and last film adaptation of the 1947 stage musical by Burton Lane. While the [...]

Francis Ford Coppola’s second film, You’re a Big Boy Now, was a major step forward from Dementia 13, and still feels like one of the most personal and spontaneous films [...]

In effect, Dementia 13 was Francis Ford Coppola’s first film as a director. While his name had been attached to two earlier exploitation films, Tonight for Sure and The [...]

Sam Mendes’ latest film is probably his most ambitious – a World War I drama that appears to unfold as a single shot, following two soldiers as they try to deliver a [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson has said that The Master is his best film, and it’s certainly his most controlled – so tautly controlled, in fact, that is was inevitable his next [...]

There’s something about the critical response to Cats that signals a crisis in film criticism itself, since there’s no way this is the nightmare that most reviewers have [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson has repeatedly stated that The Master is his favourite film in his career – the film where he really felt everything came together just as he had [...]

Most films about old people are either tragic or saccharine – or both – while old people are often used as markers of authenticity and sentimentality in mainstream cinema [...]