The Enduring Legacy Of Hammer Horror
For a studio so resolutely associated with a particular period of British cinema, it's odd that Hammer Studios suddenly feels...
Nick Bartlett
Charade Review (Criterion Collection)
Famously described as "the best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made", Stanley Donen's Charade has spent more than sixty years being...
Toy Story 5 Review
It's not exactly an original observation, but the first three Toy Story films remain one of cinema's great trilogies. The...
Body Heat Review (Criterion Collection)
With the country currently in the grip of an extreme heatwave, Criterion’s UK release of Body Heat could not be...
Normal Review
The premise of Normal, the latest film from Ben Wheatley, sounds incredibly promising. A snowbound neo-western from the director of...
Obsession Review
With his sophomore feature, Curry Barker takes a premise we’ve seen countless times before in sitcoms, teen comedies and science...
Point Blank Review (Criterion Collection)
There's never been another movie icon like Lee Marvin. He's tougher than McQueen, more sadistic than Eastwood, and more charismatic...
Trouble In Paradise Review (Criterion Collection)
One of the most important film directors of all time, Ernst Lubitsch, was hugely influential in shaping cinema as we...
The Stranger (L’Étranger) Review
Albert Camus’ The Outsider, or The Stranger (or L’Étranger) has long been considered difficult, if not outright impossible, to adapt....
Hard Boiled 4K Review (Arrow)
Even if you haven’t seen Hard Boiled, you’ve almost certainly seen the promotional image of Chow Yun-Fat, decked out in...
Salem’s Lot Review (Arrow Films)
In his introduction to the paperback release of Salem's Lot, Stephen King described his lofty ambitions for what was only...
The Magic Faraway Tree Review
Any adaptation of Enid Blyton seems a questionable prospect in the 21st century. Like Roald Dahl, her work has gone...
The Man Who Wasn’t There Review (Criterion Collection)
“Sooner or later, everyone needs a haircut” Described by Joel Coen as the story of "a barber who wants to...
Dolly Review
It’s difficult to find a new angle in horror films nowadays. Any cabin-in-the-woods story inevitably draws comparisons with The Evil...