We live in an age where swathes of journalists get laid off at the drop of a hat, and where the idea of writing for a living seems more fantastic with every passing day. Writers get used to practicing a kind of stoic optimism: with no (monetary) reward or any […]
Reviews
Iceman: The Time Traveller (2018) Bewildering Blockbusters And The Cost Of Globalisation (Review)
Opera (1987) Argento Is No Ordinary Horror Director And [This] No Ordinary Horror Film (Review)
Josie (2018): … To Be Bad You Have To Recognise That You’re Bad (Review)
As my colleague Rob Simpson keeps having to point out, a film doesn’t need likeable characters to be good. It doesn’t even need smart characters. There’s a whole subgenre of noir fiction from Jim Thompson through to the Coen brothers which takes knuckle-dragging characters doing repellent things and alchemises them into […]
Texas Adios (1966) A glimpse of the Spaghetti Westerns yet to come (Review)
Once Upon a Time in China Trilogy (1991-93) The Birth of Jet Li’s Super Stardom (Review)
De Niro & De Palma: The Early Films (1968-70)(Review)
Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1989) the highest of high camp comedy-horror (Review)
The Early Films of Olivier Assayas (1986 & 1989)(Review)
A Raisin In The Sun (1961) a call to arms for the downtrodden, hardworking majority (Review)
With a screenplay by the original playwright (Lorraine Hansberry), and featuring Sidney Poitier, a debut from Louis Gossett Jr, and a powerful cast of African-American performers, A Raisin In The Sun provides us with a kitchen-sink drama for the Civil Rights movement. Set in Chicago, and based on Hansberry’s 1959 […]