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In many ways, The Funhouse feels like a quintessential 1981 film – a perfect evocation of the cusp of the 80s as it played out in Hollywood cinema. Movies at this time were [...]

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre may just be the most visionary horror film of the last half century – a primal showdown between hippies and hicks, between the [...]

Those Who Wish Me Dead may be the masterpiece of the Sheridanverse, a searing vision of climate change set against the backdrop of his beloved Montana. The film opens [...]

The Little Things was written in 1993, and stayed in development hell for almost three decades, before finally being released in 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic. As [...]

More and more, we live in such a seamless continuum between real and virtual life – a desert of the real – that it’s almost impossible to create an uncanny valley in [...]

Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven is a manifesto for what might be clunkily called post-postmodernism – a conspicuous departure from the late postmodern aesthetic that [...]

French Kiss is one of the stranger films in both Meg Ryan and Lawrence Kasdan’s oeuvres. On the face of it, this is a breezy romcom, in which American Kate, played by Ryan, [...]

The Village was released at the very apex of M. Night Shyamalan’s career, and as a result it’s one of his most gorgeously atmospheric and lyrical films. Set in what [...]

Armageddon Time is one of James Gray’s most beautifully observed films. On the face of it, or from a distance, it might also seem like one of his most conventional films [...]

Addicted to Love has to be one of the weirdest mainstream releases of the late 90s. In essence, it’s a response to the upswell of surveillance experiences, and the rise of [...]