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The Adventures of Prince Achmed at One Hundred: A Look Back
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) at one hundred: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Ross McLaren
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Dracula: The Night Around Us (2026)
There is no character in the whole of cinema who has been to the screen more often than Dracula, which means every new version arrives carrying an impossible weight. How do you say anything fresh about a story we have all seen dozens of times, from Lugosi through Christopher Lee
Rating: 4.5★
There Will Be Blood (2007)
There Will Be Blood arrived in late 2007 carrying the kind of quiet, serious weight that tends to announce itself without needing to shout. Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature is a period drama set across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, rooted loosely in Upton Sinclair'
Rating: 3.0★
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
By the mid-1980s, Hollywood had a well-documented habit of reducing Black actors to a narrow band of familiar types: the wisecracking sidekick, the menacing thug, the obedient servant. The blaxploitation wave of the early 1970s had come and gone, leaving behind a complicated legacy of films that, whatever
Rating: 1.0★
Zorns Lemma (1970)
There are films that challenge comfortable viewing habits, and then there are films that treat the act of watching as something closer to an endurance test. Zorns Lemma, released in 1970 and running to a brisk but demanding sixty minutes, belongs very much to the second category, at least if
Rating: 4.0★
Talk to Me (2022)
Australian horror has a habit of catching you off guard, and Talk to Me (2022) arrived with precisely that quality. Co-produced by Causeway Films alongside Screen Australia, the South Australian Film Corporation, Bankside Films, and Head Gear Films, the picture is rooted firmly in the tradition of supernatural horror
Rating: 2.0★
White Chicks (2004)
There is a certain kind of comedy that exists purely on the strength of one outrageous idea, betting everything on the audience's willingness to go along for the ride regardless of whether the script can keep pace. White Chicks, released in the summer of 2004, is a fairly
Rating: 4.0★
Nightcrawler (2014)
Los Angeles at night has always been fertile ground for cinema's darker instincts, a city whose glossy surface conceals something considerably more unsettling underneath. Nightcrawler, released in 2014, taps into that unease with considerable precision, setting its story inside the world of freelance crime journalism, specifically the murky
Rating: 3.5★
Dogtooth (2009)
There is a particular kind of Greek cinema that exists almost entirely outside the mainstream, and Dogtooth (or Kynodontas, in its original Greek) sits right at the centre of that tradition. Released in 2009 and co-produced by the Greek Film Centre alongside Boo Productions and Horsefly Productions, the film
Rating: 2.5★
The Tribe (2014)
There is a particular corner of European cinema that seems almost duty-bound to make its audience uncomfortable, and The Tribe, the 2014 Ukrainian drama from writer-director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, sits squarely in that tradition. The premise is both simple and disquieting: a teenage boy, Sergey, arrives at a residential
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Hands of Stone at Ten: A Look Back
Hands of Stone (2016) at ten: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Rating: 4.0★
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Few films have managed to straddle two genres as confidently as An American Werewolf in London. Released in the summer of 1981, John Landis's horror comedy arrived at a curious crossroads in mainstream cinema, when the slasher boom kicked off by Halloween and Friday the 13th was still