Twin Peaks S01E01: “Pilot/Northwest Passage” (08/04/90)
April 8. 1990 – this is where it all began. Although I didn’t see Twin Peaks until ten years after it aired, there has been no film or television series that has [...]
Dumont: Ma Loute (Slack Bay) (2016)
One of the strangest films I have seen in some time, Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay is – at least on the surface of it – a crime procedural set in the Pas-de-Calais region in [...]
Beatty: Dick Tracy (1990)
An elaborate fantasia on the 1930s from the vantage point of the 1990s, Warren Beatty’s labour of love is still a high watermark for comic strip and graphic novel [...]
Bergman: The Freshman (1990)
So monolithic and magisterial were the combined achievements of The Godfather and The Godfather II, and so emphatic were their identification with the New Hollywood legacy, [...]
One Mississippi: Season 1 (2016)
One of the most difficult things to do, presumably, as a queer person, is to confront inequality in the face of death. Of course, death is the great leveller, but the [...]
Loach: I, Daniel Blake (2016)
An incredible protest film from a radical veteran, I, Daniel Blake is one of the starkest and most uncompromising entries in Ken Loach’s body of work, and yet one of the [...]
Search Party: Season 1 (2016)
One of the strangest series to grace our screens in 2016 was Search Party, a dark comedy about a group of New York hipsters whose world is turned upside down when they [...]
Kasdan: I Love You To Death (1990)
One of the weirdest films in Lawrence Kasdan’s already very weird filmography, I Love You To Death is a dark comedy revolving around Joey Boca, played by Kevin Kline, an [...]
Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1 (2017)
One of the most enjoyably ridiculous recent Netflix releases, Santa Clarita Diet stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as Sheila and Joel Hammond, a pair of Santa Clarita [...]
Kiarostami: Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-Up) (1990)
I came to Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up quite late. It had been recommended to me for years, but I somehow never got around to watching it until a couple of months ago. I’m [...]