Andrew McArthur

Obsessed with all things film, television, and pop music. Worshipper of John Waters, Roman Polanski, and classy French actresses.

Andrew McArthur 13 May 2015

When Pitch Perfect arrived in 2012, we had never really seen anything like it before. The acapella music was fresh,...

Andrew McArthur 7 May 2015

Chris Rock returns to the director's chair for Top Five - a semi-biographical comedy in which he also stars. Rock...

Andrew McArthur 17 April 2015

Alan Rickman returns to the director's chair for the first time since 1997's The Winter Guest for his sophomore passion...

Andrew McArthur 14 April 2015

Sneaking out shortly after the blistering revenge spectacle provided by John Wick, comes The Salvation, an atmospheric Western which also...

Andrew McArthur 12 April 2015

Keanu Reeves makes a striking return to form with John Wick - a highly charged revenge film from debut director...

Andrew McArthur 8 April 2015

Ryan Gosling has worked with an impressive array of contemporary auteurs - from Nicolas Winding Refn to Derek Cianfrance -...

Andrew McArthur 2 April 2015

You would be wrong presuming that Russell Crowe had opted for a small scale project to launch his debut as...

Andrew McArthur 30 March 2015

Attempting to distinguish itself from the rest of the American High School teen-comedies out there, Ari Sandel's The DUFF provides...

Andrew McArthur 27 March 2015

I can't say I'm easily offended. As someone who enjoys intelligent bad taste and counts John Waters as a cinematic...

Andrew McArthur 5 March 2015

Olivier Assayas writes and directs Clouds of Sils Maria, an ambitious character study examining the lines between fiction and reality,...

Andrew McArthur 4 March 2015

Ryan Murphy's passion for the horror genre goes cinematic in his meta-sequel to 1976 cult slasher, The Town That Dreaded...

Andrew McArthur 3 March 2015

Alan Rickman returns to the director's chair for the first time since 1997's The Winter Guest for his sophomore passion...

Andrew McArthur 3 March 2015

Susanne Bier's Serena was a pleasant surprise that served up a solid helping of emotionally-charged period Southern Gothic, but now...

Andrew McArthur 2 March 2015

David Dobkin's The Judge takes us back to the sort of big-budget legal thrillers that filled cinemas in the nineties....