New Order: Music Complete (2015)
What does it mean to create a New Order album without Peter Hook? That’s the question raised by Music Complete, the band’s first album of original material since 2013’s [...]
Enya: Dark Sky Island (2015)
I’ve just found, out, somewhat belatedly, that Enya has released a new studio album. Actually, belatedly is perhaps not quite the right word, since the album only dropped [...]
Donner: The Omen (1976)
One of the most beautiful and mercurial horror films of the 1970s, The Omen ushered in one of the most consistent and durable horror franchises of the 1970s and 1980s as [...]
Haigh: 45 Years (2015)
Over the last few years, it feels as if dramas about older people have taken a different turn. Whereas it once felt that films about the aged were made for the young, or at [...]
Malick: Knight of Cups (2015)
My head is still spinning from having just watched Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups. Already, I feel as if it is going to be a very precious film for me, for a whole host [...]
Hill: Southern Comfort (1981)
One of Walter Hill’s gifts as a director was his ability to tap into the complex dynamics of large groups of men. In fact, that’s what his definition of B-cinema came [...]
Craven: Deadly Blessing (1981)
For the media-saturated 80s, there was something fascinating about the spectacle of technophobic communities. Although Peter Weir may have captured the spirit of Old Weird [...]
Rafelson: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
If you had to sum up the achievement of The Postman Always Rings Twice in a single sentence, you might say that it is an adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, rather than [...]
Cronenberg: Scanners (1981)
One of the most perfectly realised of Cronenberg’s first wave of horror films, Scanners spawned two sequels, two spin-offs and has been in development as a television [...]
Moorhouse: The Dressmaker (2015)
If there’s one thing that defines contemporary Australian cinema, it’s an anxiety about national mythologies. Of course, those mythologies are present within any national [...]