Rating: 3.0★
Folk horror has enjoyed something of a quiet renaissance over the past decade or so, with films trading Gothic excess for a more grounded, elemental dread rooted in landscape, superstition, and community. It is a genre that rewards patience, and one that has proved a surprisingly fertile space for debut
Rating: 3.0★
By the early 1950s, Hollywood was, in most respects, still a man's world behind the camera. The major studios employed armies of contract directors, and women were conspicuously absent from that roster. Ida Lupino was the exception. Already a well-established actress by that point, she had turned
Rating: 3.0★
Few films can claim to have genuinely shaped the DNA of an entire genre, but Little Caesar, released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures in January 1931, is one of the rare cases where that claim holds up to scrutiny. It arrived at a particular moment in American cultural
Rating: 3.0★
Filipino cinema has long had a comfortable relationship with the romantic drama, producing films that wear their emotions openly and tend to prioritise feeling over formal ambition. I'm Drunk, I Love You, released in 2017, sits squarely within that tradition. The premise is a familiar one: two college
Rating: 3.0★
By 2019, the Fast & Furious franchise had spent nearly two decades transforming itself from a moderately budgeted street-racing thriller into one of Hollywood's most reliably enormous franchises, complete with international espionage, orbital satellites, and a mythology so dense it practically requires a flow chart to follow.
Rating: 3.0★
February 1939 marked one of the most desperate mass movements of people in modern European history. As Franco's Nationalist forces closed in on the last Republican strongholds in Catalonia, somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 Spanish civilians and soldiers crossed the Pyrenees into France in a matter
Rating: 3.0★
The legend of Robin Hood has been retold so many times, in so many formats, that every new version carries the weight of all the ones before it. By the time Kevin Reynolds brought his take to cinemas in the summer of 1991, audiences had already seen Errol Flynn swing
Rating: 3.0★
There was a time, roughly bookended by the anxieties of Y2K and the seismic shock of September 2001, when Hollywood found itself drawn to stories about ordinary people caught in systems they could neither escape nor fully understand. Phone Booth arrives squarely in that window, released in 2002 after a
Rating: 3.0★
On the 5th of November 1975, a group of forestry workers drove back into Snowflake, Arizona, with a story that the local sheriff and a fair portion of the American public found very hard to swallow. They claimed that their colleague, Travis Walton, had been struck by a beam of
Rating: 3.0★
Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (better known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) has had no shortage of screen adaptations, from the silent Lon Chaney version of 1923 through to the brooding 1939 Charles Laughton picture. By the time Disney came to the
1970s
René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) is one of those films that doesn’t really fit anywhere: too cerebral for kids, too odd for animation festivals, too steeped in European political theory for the Saturday-morning slot, and too visually fearless to ignore. A 72-minute French–Czech co-production
Genre Animation
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