Category: Films
Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller
This pulpy yet weirdly woo-woo nautical thriller sets good-guy treasure hunters on a collision course with drug smugglers (bad guys) and great white sharks (morally [more…]
Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths
Steven Soderbergh’s new film Presence this week heralds the return of a cinematic technique familiar to many fans of scary movies: the point-of-view shot. Viewing [more…]
The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used [more…]
Oscar buzz and genre snubs: will the Academy finally give sci-fi, fantasy and horror their due?
Ah, the Oscars. That perennial exercise in Hollywood patting itself on the back with all the subtlety of a fireworks display, while the rest of [more…]
Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust
Here is a vigilante thriller co-directed, written by and starring prolific low-budget Scottish film-maker Nathan Shepka, which has a kind of grim integrity despite the [more…]
Sunray: Fallen Soldier review – staple guns pressed into service in brutal payback thriller
This is a boorish, blokey film, the cinematic equivalent of a man sitting on the tube with his legs spread wide apart. It’s a violent [more…]
‘An unmitigated joy’: why Married to the Mob is my feelgood movie
There’s no more perfect song to open a movie than Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. It’s a delightful nonsense [more…]
Blood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir
The loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Another man [more…]
‘It’s a PR battle’: inside the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuits
It Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, [more…]
‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema
‘I told them: There’s no way I can improve Blue Velvet’ Paul Schrader, director David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino De Laurentiis told David [more…]
