My head is still spinning from having just watched Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups. Already, I feel as if it is going to be a very precious film for me, for a whole host [...]

One of Walter Hill’s gifts as a director was his ability to tap into the complex dynamics of large groups of men. In fact, that’s what his definition of B-cinema came [...]

For the media-saturated 80s, there was something fascinating about the spectacle of technophobic communities. Although Peter Weir may have captured the spirit of Old Weird [...]

If you had to sum up the achievement of The Postman Always Rings Twice in a single sentence, you might say that it is an adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, rather than [...]

One of the most perfectly realised of Cronenberg’s first wave of horror films, Scanners spawned two sequels, two spin-offs and has been in development as a television [...]

If there’s one thing that defines contemporary Australian cinema, it’s an anxiety about national mythologies. Of course, those mythologies are present within any national [...]

For all the lush cinematicity of the Three Colours trilogy, there are few auteurs as indebted to television as Krzysztof Kieślowski. In fact, taken as a whole, his career [...]