chris Banks

chris Banks 26 July 2019

This one might be a case of unreasonably high expectations. The Horrible Histories TV show, loosely inspired by Terry Deary’s...

chris Banks 19 July 2019

Ali Abbasi’s magic realist story Border mashes together the spectacular and the mundane. It’s a kitchen sink fairy-tale, part Prime...

chris Banks 10 June 2019

Tate Taylor’s Ma feels a little like a movie struggling to keep its head above water. A psychological horror in...

chris Banks 29 April 2019

I can remember Frank Sidebottom, Chris Sievey’s enormous-headed alter ego, being a semi-regular fixture of television when I was very...

chris Banks 24 April 2019

The strange thing about life, real life lived by actual people, is that it tends to unfold in a way...

chris Banks 24 April 2019

When Isabelle Huppert presented the 2017 BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema to Curzon, she joked about the inordinate...

chris Banks 5 April 2019

A rule of thumb, where Stephen King is concerned, seems to be that brevity is the author’s friend. When the...

chris Banks 29 March 2019

Disney’s 1941 animation Dumbo is a lot of things: a psychedelic trauma of underage drunkenness and pink dancing elephants; an...

chris Banks 25 March 2019

Jonas Akerlund’s raucous Lords of Chaos looks at the early days of the blossoming Norwegian Black metal scene in the...

chris Banks 22 March 2019

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

chris Banks 18 February 2019

When the line between life and art is blurred, the consequences can sometimes be thrilling. The end results of Casey...

chris Banks 21 November 2018

I can remember quite distinctly, in 1999 and still youthfully optimistic, the sinking feeling of confusion and dismay that accompanied...

chris Banks 13 November 2018

Nazi exploitation flicks don’t have a particularly august reputation. The very worst the genre has to offer: Ilsa She Wolf...

chris Banks 18 October 2018

Despite its legacy as one of the most influential horror series ever, the Halloween franchise has arguably been circling the...