Tzvetan Todorov’s model of narrative equilibrium and the action film go hand-in-hand. Harmony, disruption, restoration.…

The Mist starts off as a routine horror flick, with deliberately-B movie style monsters, blood…

Philip Adler explores the lates offering shown by Phoenix Films at the Union Films cinema at Southampton University, Monsieur Lazhar.

Though not quite as accomplished as some of the legendary Studio Ghibli’s finest works, Nausicaä of…

This is a very different film to the other Dracula title selected as part of…

In my opinion, The Village is one of the most beautiful films of recent times.…

This French triumph, originally titled Á la folie… pas du tout, was the director Laetitia…

Odds are, you’ll know who I mean when I say the name Peter Jackson. The…

John Patrick Shanley brings his award-winning stage show Doubt to the big screen with brilliant effect in this…

Lost Highway is not for people who like their films to have satisfying endings, and…

Superbly adapted from an already controversial novel by Koushun Takami, Director Kinji Fukasaku and his…

It’s best to watch this outstanding, masterful film without knowing too much about it. For…

Bette Davis was a great actor, and here she is enjoyably creepy as a Nanny…

This 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Emma (one of two adaptations of the book…