Film Reviews

Ian Schultz 31 October 2015

Eddie Murphy is normally terrible in everything possible except his early stand-up but Bowfinger like Punch-Drunk Love is to Adam...

Ian Schultz 30 October 2015

Ulli Lommel is fascinating figure in cinema because he is extensively a hack filmmaker. Lommel started working with Rainer Werner...

chris Banks 30 October 2015

Ian McKellen exudes a sense of curmudgeonly charm in Bill Condon’s Mr Holmes, which sees an elderly version of the...

Ian Schultz 28 October 2015

I've never been a fan of Hammer films, I've always found them boring and dated. The Skull was made the...

Ian Schultz 28 October 2015

Jonathan Demme is one of the always fascinating but often frustrating American directors to come out of the '70s boom...

Ian Schultz 26 October 2015

Let another film in the strange canon of Nicolas Cage films released direct to dvd/blu-ray/streaming or whatever format you watch...

Ian Schultz 26 October 2015

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. Stanley Kramer was a massive influence...

Ian Schultz 25 October 2015

John Schlesinger was an interesting director he was British and a gay man and very conflicted about it. This was...

Ian Schultz 24 October 2015

Thieves' Highway was Jules Dassin's last real Hollywood film before he was one of the first people blacklisted during the...

Ian Schultz 23 October 2015

Before Ruggero Deodato made one of the most notorious films in cinematic history with Cannibal Holocaust he made this crazed Poliziotteschi film....

Scott Clark 23 October 2015

Mississippi Grind, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, tells the story of Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), a talented but debt...

Ian Schultz 22 October 2015

Paolo Sorrentino’s last film was The Great Beauty, one of the best films in recent years—a masterly take on themes...

Ian Schultz 20 October 2015

Miloš Forman was one of the leading lights of the Czech New Wave with his films such as Loves of a...

Jenn Spiers 20 October 2015

You’re probably aware of Kanye West’s outlandish stance on music and fashion – whether it's from his infamous interview with...