It took 13 years for Sergio Leone to get this, his last film, onto the big screen. For the most part the time away served him well, as th...

By 1981, Brian De Palma was well into his ’Hitchcock period’, a string of films in the late 70s going back to 1973’s Sisters, but really...

The iconic shot of the athletes wearing Wimbledon white, running through the beach, splashing water in slow motion set to the synthesized...

Perhaps the ultimate film about the male bravado, four city men, in the outback of Appalachia, out to conquer nature and canoe down the r...

As an exercise in research, I read some of the original reviews for A Streetcar Named Desire, both the 1951 film and the original Broadwa...

Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, Shane Meadows' This is England and Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank have, of late, carried on the tra...

One of the most valued treasures of the Scorsese canon, 'Mean Streets' birthed Scorsese's distinct cinematic vision of the wo...

The Stanford Prison Experiment (dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez) The influential 1971 experiment wherein a groups of students volunteered for a p...

Dope (dir. Rick Famuyiwa) Bursting with joyous cinematic energy, colour, pop music, pop culture we can't help compare Dope to the energ...

Glassland (dir. Gerard Barrett) Unfortunately in terms of audience expectation Irishman Gerard Barrett's Glassland suffers from a some...

It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell) The economic simplicity of John Carpenter's horror classics seem to be the raisi...

So here's the unscientific best of the year. With a couple of exceptions the common thread of this crop is clearly the cynicism and dark...

The Bard’s tale of the ambitious Scottish lord who with his wife conspire to take the throne of Scotland by hook or crook has always made...

If you were to simply describe the plot of Gillian Flynn’s pulpy bestseller it would come off as an outrageous Joe Eszterhas-style potboi...