Love Lies Bleeding is one of the more defiantly lesbian films I’ve seen recently. Its defiance lies in the fact that it makes no effort to normalise lesbianism, or [...]

One of the enduring tropes of Sofia Coppola’s body of work is girlhood in palatial settings – the Versailles of Marie Antoinette, the Chateau Marmont of Somewhere and now [...]

It’s been strange to see the Coen Brothers splinter off into their own projects. Whereas Joel opted for The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan’s first feature (not including his [...]

It’s funny how rapidly streaming has taken over our lives. Only ten years ago I remember noticing that I was no longer relying primarily on DVDs, and now my remaining DVDs [...]

David Ayer’s The Beekeeper is peak late Jason Statham – fun, exciting and totally committed to its ludicrous premise. One of the most enjoyable things about classical [...]

Alex Garland’s Civil War isboth the greatest and most underrated American war film since Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Interestingly, both films have been [...]

Doug Liman’s adaptation of Road House is an ingenious spin on the 80s classic, retaining its camp intensity while also updating it to an even more fractious American [...]

It seemed impossible, but Dune: Part Two is even more magnificent than Dune, and must already rank as one of the greatest and most ambitious science fiction films ever made. [...]

Danny Boyle’s extraordinary debut remains one of the defining documents of Cool Britannia as it stood in the mid-1990s. Narratively, it’s a morality tale about a trio of [...]

Bad Boys, Michael Bay’s first film, was a statement of intent – an argument for Bay as the inheritor to the traditions of Tony Scott and Michael Mann. It draws on the [...]