Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai’s fifth feature reunites the Hong Kong filmmaker with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, for another dose of slo-mo fast living. This is two stories in one: the first a hitman […]
Tag Archives: FIght Club
Se7en
It is rare to see a film where Gwyneth Paltrow is the least problematic cast member, but next to Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman, 1995 thriller SE7EN (pronounced as 2 […]
Naboer
Not to be confused with the Australian soap, Naboer (Neighbours) is a Norwegian psychological thriller also known as Next Door. Newly single John (Kristoffer Joner) helps the women in the […]
The Matrix
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the film that gave us bullet time, Neo and the song Closer. Or was that Ne-Yo? Considering it established the aesthetic for 10 […]
3 Women
Robert Altman’s 1977 psychodrama 3 Women is set around the pool of an apartment block and inspired by the director’s dreams. Fortunately that’s where the similarities to M. Night Shyamalan’s […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
Seconds
Seconds is a 1966 sci-fi about a company that offers unhappy individuals the chance to be “reborn” as a different person. Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) is such a man: an unfulfilled, middle-aged banker, […]
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
From 1972, this is the fourth instalment in the Planet of the Apes series – not to be confused with South Thanet of the Apes, a documentary about UKIP supporters. […]
Blog: Cinematic Crescendos
It’s conventional movie wisdom that the most exciting stuff should happen at the end. But there are some films which crescendo in a notably incredible way, going from humble beginnings […]
Filth
Perhaps the best thing to happen to British cinema over the last couple of years is the way in which James McAvoy seems to have replaced Ewan McGregor. Here McAvoy […]
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