By this stage, a month into Sydney’s second lockdown, I’ve spent about twenty-four hours with The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel. Unlike BEE’s previous [...]

Alone is one of the scariest films I’ve seen in years, melding various types of horror around a remarkably familiar premise – a young woman who is stalked by a man in the [...]

There’s nothing quite like the breathless yearning of 80s coming-of-age films – and there’s no 80s coming-of-age film quite like Mystic Pizza, Donald Petrie’s [...]

In the twenty-first century we’ve become acclimatised to films that draw on the terrifying iconography of the September 11 attacks, but there was also a wave of films, in [...]

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore was perhaps the most pivotal of all of Martin Scorsese’s classic films – a concise consolidation of everywhere he’d come from, and a [...]

During the 70s and early 80s, radio was a common period effect in American cinema. Directors frequently used radio to anchor the Depression-era dramas that proliferated [...]

Although Danny Boyle directed A Life Less Ordinary in the interim, The Beach is the true spiritual sequel to Trainspotting, which ended with Ewan McGregor’s character [...]

Clea DuVall’s Christmas film Happiest Season is one of the most beautiful and tonally complex queer films I’ve seen in a long time – so complex that it forces you to [...]

Claustrophobic thrillers reached their zenith during the 1990s, reflecting the last great self-contained cinematic spaces but also the possibility of a new viewing experience [...]

Eliza Hittman’s latest film is an austere character study of Autumn, a Pennsylvania teenager played by Sidney Flanigan, who travels to New York with her cousin Skylar, [...]