Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment early in A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough that stops you cold. The archive footage of a young Attenborough, sitting amongst mountain gorillas in the Rwandan Virungas in the 1970s, a juvenile called Pablo clambering over him with the casual confidence of someone who
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Marking Jeff Tremaine at 60: a look back across Jeff's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 3.0★
The main reason to seek out Real Women Have Curves right now is to watch a future star at the very beginning. This was America Ferrera's first feature film, more than two decades before her showstopping monologue in Barbie reminded the world just how good she is, and
Rating: 3.0★
You cannot watch Anvil! The Story of Anvil without This Is Spinal Tap playing somewhere in the back of your mind. I don't mean that as a backhanded compliment or a cheap joke. It's just that the parallels are so striking, so eerie, that you'
Rating: 3.0★
There is a lovely irony sitting at the heart of Born in Flames, and it is this: made in 1983 and set in a near-future America, it now works best as a time capsule of the very moment it was made. Lizzie Borden's guerrilla-shot feminist drama
Rating: 2.5★
Let me brace for the pitchforks. The Passion of Joan of Arc routinely turns up near the very summit of the "greatest films ever made" lists, spoken of in hushed, reverent tones, and having finally sat down with it I find myself genuinely baffled by the fervour. This
Rating: 2.5★
There is a particular kind of frustration that has nothing to do with a film being bad, and everything to do with realising, somewhere around the halfway point, that you have walked into the middle of someone else's conversation. That is more or less where I found myself
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
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