william friedkin

Sean Wilson 22 September 2026

How does one go about treating a much-maligned movie with dignity and affection? For director David Kittredge, his new documentary Boorman...

Sean Wilson 22 September 2026

Few movies invite as much derision as Exorcist II: The Heretic. So lambasted is John Boorman’s 1977 follow-up to William...

Paul 25 April 2025

The sun will be shining give one good reason you won't be out...The Criterion Collection! This July Criterion will have...

Paul 31 May 2019

If cult classics are your forte, Arrow Video's August line up will be right up your street. The month will...

Aly Lalji 7 October 2017

Things go bump in the night, others will devour your soul, some will slice, dice eat your heart with a...

Ian Schultz 2 May 2016

William Friedkin remains one of the best directors of the New Hollywood boom of the '70s his run of The...

Ian Schultz 23 February 2016

This set presents the complete three seasons of Hitchcock’s iconic TV show, which brought episodes of suspense to the small screen...

Ian Schultz 25 September 2015

William Friedkin ever since the critical and commercial failures of two of his best films Sorcerer (quite possibly his masterpiece)...

Paul 24 October 2014

When The Exorcist was first released in 1974, viewers were frightened out of their wits - and literally out of...

Adam Cook 21 October 2013

Despite the gruesome creatures, flying limbs and buckets of blood, horror as a genre can feel pretty stale. For every...

Paul 6 May 2013

One of television's all-time greatest sci-fi series has finally arrived on 13-disc DVD boxset - the truly breathtaking ‘The New...

Andrew McArthur 3 November 2012

It opened the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival ,iconic director William Friedkin's lastest feature, Killer Joe giving another meaning to...

Paul 27 June 2012

To millions of cinephiles he's the man who scared the living daylights out of them in the 1970's with The...

Andrew McArthur 20 June 2012

★★★★☆ What better way to open the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival than with iconic director William Friedkin's lastest feature,...