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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For all the lush cinematicity of the Three Colours trilogy, there are few auteurs as indebted to television as Krzysztof Kieślowski. In fact, taken as a whole, his career [...]