Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is every bit as different from Mad Max 2 as The Road Warrior was from the original film. The residual 70s naturalism of Mad Max is entirely absent [...]

One of the recurring film tropes for Baby Boomers has been the old gang getting back together. As early as The Group, The Return of the Secaucus 7 and The Big Chill, the [...]

The two iterations of the Alien franchise each possess a distinct conception of the xenomorph, despite their internal differences. Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien [...]

The Road Warrior is a huge leap forward in the Mad Max franchise and in some ways feels like the film that George Miller wanted to make all along. The opening is mythic and [...]

Mad Max is Australian cinema’s defining dystopian mythology, a primordial fusion of man and machine. It takes place almost entirely on Australian highways and continually [...]

Bryce McGuire’s first feature, Night Swim, is an adaptation of his award-winning short film of the same name, and it has a disarmingly brilliant premise: what if a swimming [...]

Richard Linklater’s latest film, and his first for Netflix, is a loose adaptation of the life of Gary Johnson, played here by Glenn Powell, who came to the public’s [...]

For my money, Richard LaGravenese’s A Family Affair, which has been roundly pilloried by critics, is the most underrated film of 2024 so far. On the face of it, Carrie [...]

Challengers may well come to be seen as one of the most significant moments in a growing movement to relibidinse cinema again now that the stranglehold of Marvel has passed. [...]

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film, may be the most terrifying vision of the Holocaust that I have seen on the big screen. For the most part, films treat [...]