Rating: 3.5★
Some films you watch for greatness, and some you watch to see where it all began. Dead of Night sits firmly in the second camp, and there is absolutely no shame in that. This 1945 Ealing Studios production is one of the foundation stones of British horror, made by a
Rating: 3.5★
I have watched and written about a lot of Wes Anderson by now, enough to call him one of my favourite directors, though I would stop short of calling him one of the best, and I think that distinction matters. The two are not the same thing. A favourite is
Rating: 3.0★
There are a handful of films so woven into the culture that you feel you've already seen them before you actually sit down and watch them. Rebel Without a Cause is one of those films. The red jacket, the flick-knife, James Dean as the patron saint of
Rating: 3.5★
They Cloned Tyrone announces itself as one of those films that refuses to sit still in a single genre, and for a good while that is exactly what makes it such fun. Juel Taylor's debut opens as an atmospheric, darkly comic crime picture set in a rundown neighbourhood,
Rating: 4.0★
Fairy tales have always had a cruel streak. Not the Disney kind, with the swelling strings and the guaranteed happy ending, but the older kind, the kind where girls slice off their own toes to fit a glass slipper and pigeons peck out the eyes of the wicked. The Ugly
Rating: 2.5★
A cast this stacked has no business being this forgettable. That is the thought I kept returning to throughout James Ashcroft's The Whisper Man, adapted from Alex North's novel, which somehow assembles Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Michelle Monaghan, Owen Teague and Adam Scott, and then
Rating: 3.5★
Not so long ago I sat through a zombie comedy that was so busy cracking jokes it forgot zombies were supposed to be scary. That film left me cold. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is the direct antidote to that problem, and a neat little lesson in getting the
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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★
Imagine Léon: The Professional with every last scrap of warmth surgically removed, and you are somewhere close to You Were Never Really Here. Both films pair a haunted hired killer with a young girl he is trying to save, but where Léon finds an unlikely tenderness in that bond, Lynne
Rating: 3.0★
Every so often a single performer is so magnetic that they drag an entire film up several rungs by sheer force of presence, and Dirty Dancing is one of the purest examples I can think of. Strip Patrick Swayze out of Emile Ardolino's 1987 hit and you are
Rating: 2.5★
Coney Island drew me in. It's the iconic, salt-bleached backdrop of The Warriors, one of my absolute favourite films, and the moment I clocked that Haley Elizabeth Anderson's 2024 indie drama was set along that famous stretch of boardwalk, I was in. Location can do
Rating: 4.0★
When you think of David Lynch, your mind likely drifts to surreal nightmares, flickering neon, and industrial dread. You do not, typically, picture a family-friendly road trip across the American Midwest on a ride-on lawnmower. Yet here we are, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment:
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