chris Banks

chris Banks 20 January 2020

In the 32 years between 1973 and 2005, Terence Malick directed only four films, and absolutely nothing in the 20...

chris Banks 11 November 2019

Poor George Michael. His good name has been dragged through the tinsel-flecked, bauble-strewn mud. Last Christmas is an unmitigated disaster....

chris Banks 31 October 2019

Introducing his The Shining sequel, in London last week, director Mike Flanagan spoke about the need to juggle the twin...

chris Banks 18 October 2019

It’s a shame that things have come to this. The first Zombieland seemed to ride a wave of spontaneous energy,...

chris Banks 19 September 2019

Adapting a New York magazine article that went viral in 2015, Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers flips the genders in an outrageously...

chris Banks 18 September 2019

Brad Pitt’s latest is a mature and thoughtful sci-fi journey that tends to eschew the noisy tactics of most current...

chris Banks 3 September 2019

Twenty seven years after the events of Chapter 1, Derry’s own Losers Club are called back home to tackle a...

chris Banks 28 August 2019

A bag as mixed as the one that holds the ingredients to Getafix’s coveted magic brew, this recent shunting of...

chris Banks 21 August 2019

Pedro Almodovar’s latest seen the prolific Spanish filmmaker in a reflective mood. Pain and Glory. Veteran movie director Salvador Mallo...

chris Banks 19 August 2019

You can forgive, or perhaps even grow to love, a movie that exists primarily to sell a truck load of...

chris Banks 12 August 2019

“The 9th movie from Quentin Tarantino”, posters for this say. Tarantino, having retrospectively decided that Kill Bill constitutes only one...

chris Banks 2 August 2019

When art imitates life in cinemas, the results can be pretty interesting. In Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder cast reclusive silent...

chris Banks 2 August 2019

They’ve gone the way of the dodo, or a competent England cricket opening partnership, but at one time portmanteau horror...

chris Banks 29 July 2019

Writer/Director Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out, a ferocious, smart and regularly amusing satirical horror was so wildly successful it...