Film Archive: Although frequently hilarious, The Truman Show isn’t your usual Jim Carrey movie
My life in halls of residence isn’t the most eventful. Hardly anyone had much reason…
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Film Archive: The original A Nightmare on Elm Street movie had intelligence, wit and bite
Wes Craven’s iconic classic A Nightmare on Elm Street has been parodied, remade, continued and…
Film Archive: Saw III is cinema at its most appalling and repugnant
This is when it really got sick. This is when it became more about the…
Film Archive: Animated Japanese thriller Paprika is a strange, surreal and unforgettable experience
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – a group of people are tasked…
Film Archive: With her sophisticated debut Cracks, Ridley Scott’s daughter proves she is a talent to watch
This confident directorial debut from Jordan Scott could be seen as a sexually repressed version…
Film Archive: Bronson is a horrible, self-indulgent mess of a film
Tom Hardy gives a stunning performance as one of Britain’s most infamous criminals, but unfortunately the…
Film Archive: South Korean drama Treeless Mountain deserves a larger audience
Yong Kim delivers an affecting and memorable follow-up directorial effort to her 2006 feature In Between…
Badly plotted and painfully slow, The Girl Who Played With Fire is a dull failure
The first entry in Swedish author Steig Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy became a surprise big-screen…
Almodóvar’s Bad Education is an unconventional, colourful feast of entertainment
A mix of various influences and styles, Pedro Almodóvar’s 2004 Spanish drama is an eccentric but spectacular work of art.
ARCHIVE: High School Musical 3: Senior Year ★★★★☆
We’re all in this together
Bottom of the Barrel: Get Him to the Greek
As sleazy, tasteless and misogynistic as any other Judd Apatow-backed comedy
ARCHIVE: Donkey Punch (2008) ★★★★☆
Low-budget slasher is right up Barnaby Walter’s street
Bottom of the Barrel: Kick-Ass (2010)
Kick-Ass gets a kicking
ARCHIVE: Bad Lieutenant (2009) ★★★★★
Werner Herzog’s retelling of Abel Ferrera’s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant is not an easy watch.…