The idea of Danny Boyle doing a Christopher Nolan-style heist/con thriller is enticing but Boyle’s imposing style however, bold and unique, ...

Carol Reed’s WWII espionage pot boiler confidently stands as tall as any of the celebrated Hitchcock war thrillers of the era. While this pi...

The Elephant Man endears as one of my favourite films of all time because it exemplifies what makes a great film – taking traditional sto...

Another ensemble coming-of-age film involving a handful of high schoolers on their last day of summer experiencing the pains of love? But...

The masterful comprehensive examination of the Holocaust never fails to mesmerize on all levels of cinema, history and humanity. Though n...

There’s no doubt Mr. Coppola like many other 70’s mavericks suffered to achieve the success and admiration in the 80’s. That said, there’s m...

The choice of shooting black and white for this picture is key to its warm feelings of cinematic nostalgia and the seemingly effortless natu...

From H.G. Wells's screenplay adaption from his own book 'The Shape of Things to Come' came one of the most ambitious science ...

One of the unique experiments of the 1960’s, Cornel Wilde’s ambitious parable of culture and conflict is remarkably simple in concept - a ...

Olivier Assayas' memorable addition of Euro-art house credibility to what was essentially a procedural action film told with maximum re...

Alan Clarke’s powerful indictment of the British juvenile penal system is a virtuouso cinematic achievement, ugly and beautiful at the sa...

This is Sam Peckinpah's other unquestionable triumph, second to The Wild Bunch , a classic morality tale that furthers his career exam...

In the long history of Asian genre directors crossing over into English-language films, Chan-wook Parks’ Stoker, a deliriously directed n...

Even after six films following his celebrated Nouvelle-Vague debut 'Band of Outsiders' finds Godard at his hippest, frolickiest, ...