Rating: 3.0★
There are films that exist as much as mythology as cinema, and Rebel Without a Cause is perhaps the clearest example Hollywood produced in the 1950s. Released in October 1955, just weeks after James Dean was killed in a car accident on a California highway, the film arrived already carrying
Rating: 3.5★
They Cloned Tyrone arrived on Netflix in the summer of 2023 trailing the kind of word-of-mouth that tends to build quietly before suddenly becoming unavoidable. Produced by MACRO and Made With Love Media, it is a genre-blending science fiction comedy mystery that plants itself firmly in a
Rating: 4.0★
Fairy tales, as the Brothers Grimm well knew before the sanitising of the Disney era, were never really for children. They were cautionary instruments, blunt as a mallet, full of mutilation, vanity and social punishment. It is into this older, uglier tradition that Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt plants The
Rating: 2.5★
Alex North's novel The Whisper Man arrived in 2019 to considerable commercial success, sitting comfortably within the tradition of British psychological crime fiction that puts grief and parenthood at the centre of its horror. The premise, a widowed father whose young son disappears, and the retired detective grandfather
Rating: 3.5★
The zombie comedy, or zom-com if you prefer the shorthand, has been a recognisable genre hybrid since at least the early 2000s, and by 2015 the form had settled into something approaching a comfortable formula: self-aware humour, a group of unlikely survivors, and a careful calibration of laughs
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Here are the more popular films that have newly landed on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, 35 of them worth knowing about this month. Prime quietly adds and drops titles all the time, so this is your steer on what is worth queuing up. New on Amazon Prime UK
Rating: 3.5★
Lynne Ramsay has never been a director interested in comfort. From the suffocating council-estate grief of Ratcatcher (1999) to the cold, forensic dread of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), she has spent her career making films that sit in the chest like a stone. You Were Never
Rating: 3.0★
There is something genuinely curious about the cultural longevity of Dirty Dancing. Released in the summer of 1987 by the now-defunct Vestron Pictures, it was made for a modest budget, shot quickly, and set in a world, the Catskills resort circuit of the early 1960s, that was already fading
Rating: 2.5★
South Brooklyn has long served as fertile ground for American independent cinema, a neighbourhood dense enough with working-class texture and immigrant history to make almost any story feel lived-in before the first line of dialogue is spoken. Tendaberry (2024) plants itself squarely in that tradition, following 23-year-
Rating: 4.0★
There is a version of David Lynch's career that reads as a consistent exercise in the uncanny: industrial wastelands, dream logic, violence lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. Under the Skin fans will recognise that particular brand of alienating, unsettling cinema, even if Lynch had no
Rating: 4.0★
Park Chan-wook returns in 2025 with No Other Choice, a South Korean and French co-production that wears its genre labels, comedy, crime, thriller, with a studied looseness that feels entirely characteristic of the director. The film is adapted, in broad strokes, from Donald Westlake's 1993 novel
Rating: 2.0★
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are, depending on your disposition, either two of European cinema's most uncompromising visionaries or two of its most wilfully alienating formalists. Possibly both. The Franco-German couple worked together from the early 1960s until Huillet's death in 2006, producing a
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