Rosenthal: Halloween II (1981)
The second film in the Halloween cycle, Halloween II was originally intended to be the end of the Michael Myers story, rather than the beginning of a horror icon that would [...]
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Boyle: Trainspotting (1996)
No film punctured the aspirations of Cool Brittania, the promises of New Labour, or the tide of optimism that swept over the 1990s quite like Trainspotting, which remains one [...]
Zvyagintsev: Nelyubov (Loveless) (2017)
Andrey Zvyagnintsev’s latest film is both more focused and more expansive than the grand novelistic sweep of Leviathan, using a family in crisis as a way of commenting upon [...]
Carr: Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
Erin Lee Carr’s documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest delves into one of the strangest and most unsettling true crime sagas of recent years – the murder of forty-eight year [...]
Cohen: The House (2017)
Over the last couple of years, Will Ferrell’s comic persona has been moving further and further towards a kind of intensified normality, a milquetoast demeanour that was [...]
Kasdan: Grand Canyon (1991)
Grand Canyon was Lawrence Kasdan’s spiritual sequel to The Big Chill, a vision of baby boomers at the cusp of the 1990s as they try to locate themselves within an [...]
The Young Pope: Season 1 (2017)
One of the most curious and complex television series of 2017, The Young Pope marks Paolo Sorrentino’s transition to television, although its charm lies partly in the way [...]
Allen: Shadows and Fog (1991)
Shadows and Fog is based on Woody Allen’s one-act play Death, which was published in 1975 as a comic version of Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play The Killer. While Death had [...]
New Order: Low-Life (1985)
I’ve always found Low-Life to be one of the most beautiful of New Order’s albums. In part, that’s because of how eloquently it responds to Power, Corruption and Lies, [...]
Clooney: Suburbicon (2017)
To say that George Clooney’s latest film has received something of a critical backlash isn’t really that much of a criticism. Between Good Night and Good Luck and The [...]