The Hunted is a gem in William Friedkin’s later filmography and a continuation of the globalised paranoia of his classic string of releases in the 1970s. It opens with a [...]
American Ninja takes the classic action film to an utter apex of absurdity, offering up a hyperbolised vision of sigma masculinity that revels in its own silliness. Michael [...]
Talk to Me, the debut film from Michael and Danny Philippou, starts in the middle of a labyrinthine house party. We follow an unnamed character through one room after [...]
American Flyers was screenwriter Steve Teisch’s spiritual sequel to Breaking Away, often considered to be the greatest cycling film of all time. It’s also director John [...]
In his first three works set in Hong Kong, it felt as if Wong Kar-wai was moving towards a profoundly ambitious project: to craft a film about people who share experiences [...]
The shadow of the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hung heavy over the remainder of the franchise. No director since the original had managed to recapture and even [...]
So overwhelmed with dread and doom was the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre that it felt like a full stop on the franchise. Not only did it appear impossible to [...]
The 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre marked the start of a shift in the millennial horror zeitgeist. Much as The Blair Witch Project had formalised found footage [...]
Written by Alice Arlen, and directed by Louis Malle, Alamo Bay is a dramatisation of the conflicts that emerged between local fishermen and Vietnamese immigrants in the Gulf [...]
Agnes of God is a curious film – part neo-noir mystery, part character study, and part religious contemplation. The screenplay is written by John Pielmeier and based on his [...]