Archive: James Cameron’s Aliens proves he is a genius
James Cameron is a genius. This may be a controversial statement, but it is true…
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Review: Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express (2010) ★★★★★
Some films really take you by surprise. They creep up on you, seemingly out of…
DVD Review: Cradle Will Fall ★☆☆☆☆
This nasty and offensive little horror film centres around a woman with postnatal depression. The…
Archive: Funny Games U.S. is an eccentric and highly compelling remake
Vindictive. Exploitive. Malicious. Audacious. Psychotic. Neurotic. Subversive. Oppressive. Impressive. Disturbing. Outstanding?…Perhaps. Pointless?….Perhaps. For esoteric and…
100 Discs of Christmas #35 – Paranoid Park (2007)
Adapted from Blake Nelson’s best selling novel and shot masterfully in director Gus Van Sant’s…
Christmas Film Archive Competition!
Everyone (well, very nearly everyone) loves Christmas and Disney, so we thought the perfect way…
Film Comment: The Greatest Action Movie Ever? Die Hard, obviously
“Which is the greatest action movie ever?” Andrew Ovenden puts up an impassioned case for Die Hard.
Archive: I Know It’s Inaccurate Nonsense, But I Loved Anonymous
Anonymous tells a ‘what if?’ story about Shakespeare. Apparently he didn’t write his plays. They…
Archive: Tom Hooper’s Longford is an Underrated Masterpiece
Good viewing doesn’t always mean happy viewing, and this is something to bear in mind…
Archive: The Life Before Her Eyes is a good film let down by an awful twist
Because I am strange and get very obsessive about the world of cinema, I sometimes…
Film Comment: Catfish – Fact or Fiction?
Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, two documentary filmmakers from New York, decided in 2010 to…
Film Comment: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Trilogy
With the news that the eagerly anticipated Hobbit films were to become three, and a…
Film Comment: Suffer The Little Children Of Modern Horror Cinema
Barnaby Walter takes a look at brutal horror films A Serbian Film (2010) and Kill List (2011).
Archive: Women Without Men is a brave and beautiful piece of Iranian feminist cinema
Women Without Men is the debut feature of Shirin Neshat, a brave and talented Iranian…