Film Reviews

Ian Schultz 19 October 2015

Bryan Cranston has obviously had a career-defining role in Breaking Bad, and this, his first leading-man role since that series,...

Ian Schultz 18 October 2015

Todd Haynes is the only director to really survive the "New Queer Cinema" boom of the '90s but by his...

chris Banks 16 October 2015

A relatively late scene in Joe Wright’s Pan pretty much sums up everything that is both good and bad about...

Harry 13 October 2015

Do disaster movies work on the small screen? If they're good they do – unfortunately San Andreas is not nearly...

Ian Schultz 12 October 2015

Stephen Frears is one of the key British filmmakers of the late 45 years due to his hugely varied body...

Bradley Hadcroft 12 October 2015

You know how it is, you wait four decades for a movie that explores the lone survivor female scenario and...

Ian Schultz 8 October 2015

J.G. Ballard was the greatest post-war author Britain has ever known and his relationship to cinema is a curious one....

Ben Browne 5 October 2015

I'm not sure whether it's coincidence or a nifty marketing move, but the home release of Turbo Kid hits UK...

Ian Schultz 5 October 2015

Big budget Hollywood movies get a bad rap but every once in a while one comes along with reminds us...

Andrew McArthur 30 September 2015

Al Pacino takes his highest profile lead role in quite some time in Danny Collins - a retrospective drama that...

Ian Schultz 30 September 2015

Dennis Hopper has just had an enormous box-office and critical hit with Easy Rider in 1969. He is considered a...

chris Banks 28 September 2015

Following the garbled incoherence of The Counsellor and the lacklustre muddles of Exodus and Prometheus, there was every reason to...

Ian Schultz 27 September 2015

The year is 1962 and Antonioni finished his trilogy of alienation and makes his last black and white feature. This...

Ian Schultz 25 September 2015

Jules Dassin remains one of the key directors of film noir in America but also France. He left the States...