Rating: 4.5★
The Omaha Beach sequence. Twenty-seven minutes of controlled chaos that still has the power to leave you genuinely shaking. I went back to Saving Private Ryan recently to see whether it held up after all this time, and the honest answer is: almost entirely, yes. From the moment that
Rating: 1.5★
I wanted to love this film. I really did. When I found out that Voodoo Man holds a place as one of the most popular homegrown productions ever to come out of St Vincent and the Grenadines, I was immediately intrigued. The Caribbean is a region so rich in folklore,
Rating: 2.0★
When you're told a ten-minute horror short is supposedly one of the most popular films ever to come out of the Seychelles, you go in expecting something. Anything. A jolt of atmosphere, a moment of genuine dread, a creature that actually gets to do something. What I
Rating: 3.0★
Jean Genet is best known to most people as a novelist and playwright, the author of works like Our Lady of the Flowers and The Maids, a writer whose entire creative life was shaped by time spent on the margins of French society, including real spells in prison. Un Chant
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of watching The Heart of the World where you sit back, jaw slightly open, genuinely dazzled by what Guy Maddin has pulled off in six frantic minutes. And then there's the version where you resurface afterwards, blinking, and wonder what on earth you
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Garrett Bradley's America where you stop trying to work out exactly what you're looking at, and just let it wash over you. That surrender is, I think, exactly what Bradley is after. Shot in gorgeous, high-contrast black-and-white,
Rating: 4.0★
There is a very specific, fascinating subgenre of cinema that blurs the line between documentary and performance, using real-life trauma as a vehicle for on-screen catharsis. I've sat through a fair few of these over the years. Think Salaam Cinema, or films like 1001 Frames, where
Rating: 1.5★
A parched Earth. No oceans. Desperate pilots tearing each other apart in the sky just to harvest what little water the clouds have left. That's a genuinely cracking premise, the kind that makes you sit up and think, right, let's see where this goes. The problem
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Marking Michael Biehn at 70: a look back across Michael's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 0.5★
Let me be straight with you: I hated this. And I say that as someone who went in already bracing for a rough time, because Peter Tscherkassky's Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine takes its raw material from one of the greatest films ever made, The Good,
Rating: 3.0★
There is a very specific, unapologetically loud energy to the comedy of the early 2000s, and Keenen Ivory Wayans's Scary Movie kicks the door off its hinges right from the opening frames. It is crass, it is relentless, and it has absolutely no interest in your good taste.
Rating: 3.0★
If you've ever stumbled across Who Killed Captain Alex? and found yourself completely won over by the sheer, unbridled enthusiasm of Wakaliwood cinema, then Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 1996 Cameroonian/Zimbabwean oddity Aristotle's Plot is going to feel like a surprisingly polished cousin of that
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