More often than not, I’ve found that John Waters’ films exhibit an incredible energy and sensibility, but don’t necessarily come together as films. Of course, that’s [...]

One of the more low-key buddy films of the early 90s, Air America revolves around the covert American airline presence in Southeast Asia that funnelled provisions and troops [...]

Who inhabits the present? That’s a question I often ask myself. Is it the oldest people at any one moment, who can most contextualise the present in terms of the past? Or [...]

Pablo Larrain’s film about Pablo Neruda is his second for 2016 after Jackie, and in many ways it functions as a kind of companion piece. Like Jackie, Neruda is just a [...]

Snatched is Amy Schumer’s second big budget film after Trainwreck and, like Trainwreck, it’s a bit of a disappointment, although for different reasons. Whereas Trainwreck [...]

Recently, a friend of mine arrived back in Australia from Finland and told me that Helsinki was a city that had come of age around industrial design, and a city that still [...]

One of the most ingenious and penetrating horror films – if you can even call it a horror film – that I have seen in some time, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut [...]

In some ways, Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch’s notorious prequel to Twin Peaks, plays as two quite distinct films: the investigation by Special Agents Chester Desmond [...]

“Demons” picks up right where the previous episode – “The Orchid’s Curse” – left off, placing us between Harold Smith and Maddy Ferguson and Donna Hayward, just [...]

One of the most beautiful and uplifting films I have seen in some time, Mia Hansen-Love’s Things to Come is a semi-autobiographical drama centred on Natalie Chazeaux, a [...]