Country United States Of America
There are films you remember seeing as a kid where you can still feel the exact sensation of watching them for the first time. Aladdin is one of those. The magic carpet soaring over the clouds, the Cave of Wonders roaring to life, and then Robin Williams opening his mouth
Country United States Of America
There's a moment in The Thing where you realise you've been holding your breath. Not because something jumped out at you, not because of a sudden crash on the soundtrack, but because John Carpenter has spent the last hour quietly, patiently winding the tension so tight
Country South Korea
That corridor. You already know the one I mean. If you've seen Oldboy, it's probably the first image that flashes into your head. One man, a hammer, and a hallway absolutely packed with people who want him dead. No wirework, no quick cuts to spare anyone&
Country United States Of America
Let me tell you something that genuinely messed with my head the first time I watched this. I came to Friday the 13th as a teenager already knowing Jason Voorhees. I knew the hockey mask, the machete, the lumbering gait. I'd seen Freddy vs. Jason. I thought I
Country United States Of America
The American Dream isn't dead. It just reanimated, shuffled through the automatic doors, and made itself at home in the nearest shopping mall. That image, a horde of the undead mindlessly drifting between shop fronts, escalators, and fountain displays, is so perfectly, savagely funny that it almost hurts.
Rating: 3.5★
There is a shot lodged in my head from Garrett Bradley's Time: a home video, slightly washed out, of small boys larking about in the way small boys do, and then the film cuts, and those same boys are teenagers, and then young men, and the years have
2020s
Macbeth in Compton had no right to work as well as it does. Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, relocated to the palm lined streets of Compton, spoken in full Elizabethan verse but subtitled in the modern slang of the block. On paper it sounds like a gimmick that ought to
Rating: 3.5★
On paper, Blade Runner is exactly my sort of thing. A rain-soaked cyberpunk future, a moral puzzle at its heart, a premise that asks what it even means to be human. Ridley Scott's 1982 adaptation of Philip K. Dick imagines a world where bio-engineered humans called
Rating: 3.0★
There is something a little strange about rating a thirteen-minute short film the same way you would rate a feature. What are you even measuring? Hotel Chevalier runs barely long enough to justify making a cup of tea, and yet here I am, genuinely glad I spent time with
Rating: 1.0★
There is a genuinely haunting idea at the centre of Decasia: The State of Decay, and I want to be fair to it before I explain why the film itself was one of the most punishing viewing experiences I have put myself through in recent memory. Bill Morrison builds the
Rating: 3.5★
There are films you would never stumble upon in a hundred years without actively going looking, and Sea and the Jungle is absolutely one of them. A fifty-two-minute documentary from São Tomé and Príncipe, a small island nation in the Gulf of Guinea whose entire cinematic output would
Rating: 0.5★
There is a version of cinema that asks you to slow down, to breathe, to let images and language wash over you without the usual apparatus of plot or performance. I understand that. I have even enjoyed it. But there is another version, rarer and less forgiving, that asks all
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