One of the defining depictions of evil on film, for me, is Robert Mitchum’s character in Night of the Hunter. It’s the way he balances menace and clumsiness, a wolf who is also a Wile E. Coyote, slipping on bottles and suffering head injuries and yowling as his fingers jam […]
Reviews
Climax (2018) Gasper Noe: The Dark Lord of Dance (Review)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) the actor Melissa McCarthy always threatened to be (Review)
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 […]