Rating: 3.0★
Here is your quick test for whether Police Academy is going to work for you: Michael Winslow opens his mouth and out comes a full arsenal of gunfire, sirens, squealing tyres and revving engines, entirely from his own vocal cords, without a sound effect in sight. If that makes you
Rating: 3.0★
There is a whole worldview packed into a single administrative decision, and Under a Jarvis Moon builds its best argument from exactly that. In the 1930s and 40s, the United States government needed young men willing to be shipped out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker, three specks of coral and
Rating: 3.0★
Some films you admire more than you enjoy, and some films you respect more than you admire. Titicut Follies sits somewhere in that uncomfortable second category, and I've been turning it over in my head ever since the credits rolled, not because it moved me in any clean
Rating: 3.0★
There is a version of Jazz on a Summer's Day that I could watch on a warm Friday evening with a glass of something cold and feel completely at peace with the world. Bert Stern's 1959 film, a record of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, is
Rating: 3.0★
There is a moment early on in Jiro Dreams of Sushi when you realise the film is not really about sushi at all. It is about what happens when a person gives their entire life over to one thing, and what that costs them, and what it costs the people
Rating: 3.0★
The Great Escape, but with chickens. I'll be honest: that is not a bad pitch at all. And in the hands of Aardman, the studio that built its reputation on meticulous, lovingly hand-crafted stop-motion, it should be an absolute home run. The result is good. It
Rating: 3.0★
What if the killer was not a masked slasher with a grudge, not a monster from some shadowy mythology, but Death itself? That was the question Final Destination turned up with in 2000, and credit where it is due: nobody had really asked it quite like that before. The setup
Rating: 3.0★
I adore the original Die Hard. It is one of the finest action films of the eighties, the one that turned Bruce Willis into a superstar, and for years I carried around a memory of the sequel being even better. Sharper, bigger, more fun. So when I finally sat down
Rating: 3.0★
There is a lovely, wistful idea sitting at the heart of The Purple Rose of Cairo, and for a good while it is enough. Woody Allen's 1985 film follows Cecilia, a downtrodden waitress in Depression-era New Jersey, played by Mia Farrow, who escapes her miserable reality the
Rating: 3.0★
You have seen the bones of Man on Fire before, probably several times over. A burnt-out, hard-drinking former operative reluctantly takes a job protecting a young girl; they clash, they bond, she is snatched, and he sets about a merciless campaign to get her back. It is the
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There's a moment watching The Crazies when you think: right, this is actually pretty decent. It moves well, it's got genuine menace, and it taps into something properly unsettling about ordinary people turning feral and the institutions meant to protect you becoming the threat. And then
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There's a moment watching King Kong when you have to stop and remind yourself: they made this in 1933. No computers. No CGI. No motion capture. Just ingenuity, patience, and craftsmanship that, frankly, puts plenty of modern blockbusters to shame in terms of sheer ambition. I came away
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