REVIEWS

When making a film about Jesus, someone somewhere is going to be offended. It comes with the territory. Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ ignited controversy for its graphic brutality and interpretation of the Passion narrative, while Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ provoked outrage simply for imagining Jesus’ inner doubts and desires. Even just the idea of the Marxist, atheist (not to mention openly homosexual) Pier Paolo Pasolini directing a film ab

Until shows like ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Fallout’, decent video game adaptations were almost non-existent. For whatever reason, they proved an elusive nut to crack. From the bizarre ‘Super Mario Bros.’ surreally starring Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper, to Steven E. de Souza’s ridiculously camp ‘Street Fighter’ and what feels like about fifty unbelievably trashy Uwe Boll-helmed efforts, there are so many bad examples to draw on, it almost feels like its own genre.   ‘Return to Si

Some films are good, many are bad and a few downright ugly. However, even the worst can be redeemed by a strong performance. ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ is pretty lousy, yet Alan Rickman’s delightfully camp Sheriff of Nottingham makes it worthwhile. Morgan Freeman very nearly saves ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ from the trash heap of cinema history, while Gene Hackman elevated countless films- from ‘Superman IV: The Quest for Peace’ to ‘Loose Cannons’- showing that while

In 2025, Danny Boyle resurrected the ‘28 Days Later’ franchise with ‘28 Years Later’, a bold addition that split audiences straight down the middle. Plenty of viewers embraced its ambition and found it a gripping, atmospheric return to the Rage-infected world, but others were far less convinced. For some, the film’s bleak mood felt oppressive, its runtime indulgent and its somewhat restrained approach to gore a disappointing departure from the series’ feral energy. Almost exa

In an era where cinema often gravitates toward polished narratives and predictable arcs, some filmmakers still try to wield the camera as a weapon of truth- or at least provocation. Like the pioneers of cinéma vérité and the political provocateurs of the 1960’s New Wave, they strive to strip away artifice, exposing the raw nerves of human experience. Yet the paradox remains: the moment a lens is trained on reality, reality shifts. True vérité may be unattainable, but the purs

Few directors have so consistently blurred the line between agony and ecstasy as Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Ever since 1989’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ fused flesh and metal into a shrieking, psychosexual nightmare, Tsukamoto has been both a chronicler and an architect of urban alienation- a filmmaker obsessed with the violence of existence in an indifferent world. His jagged, intimate films pulse with bodily horror and emotional extremity, but beneath the rust and blood there’s always

By 1977, Stephen King was rapidly becoming a household name, with the best sellers ‘Carrie’, ‘Salem’s Lot’ and ‘The Shining’ making him...

When real-life couples star together, the resulting film can take on a fascinating meta-layer. Although their offscreen bond doesn’t...

In 2002, Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Days Later’ stormed into cinemas like a blood-soaked bolt of lightning, electrifying a genre that had begun to...

There are few writers whose output is as prodigious as Stephen King. With over 65 novels and countless short stories to his name, the...

They say there’s nothing new under the sun. This is especially pertinent to cinema, where originality is often hard to come by....

John Grant is a schoolteacher in a remote town deep in the Australian outback. It's the Christmas holidays, and he plans to go to Sydney...

It is 1975, and George Manning is a happily married man living in San Francisco. On his 40th birthday, a family emergency necessitates...

Nola Carveth is a patient at the Somafree Institute under the care of Dr. Hal Raglan, a leader in an experimental form of therapy known...

Okuyama is an engineer whose face was horribly mutilated in a workplace accident. Feeling shunned by society and rejected by his wife, he...

Some directors have a clearly defined and instantly identifiable style that makes their films impossible to mistake as the work of...

In the English countryside there stands a house, a seemingly benign, ramshackle abode nestled amid the undergrowth and enveloped in...

Bill Whitney is a teenager who feels he doesn’t fit in with his upper-class family. He thinks they might be hiding something evil, and...

On a cold and rainy night, American student Suzy Bannion travels to a prestigious dance school in picturesque Freiburg to study the art...

The Summer holidays have arrived, and a young schoolgirl known as Gorgeous can't wait to spend time with her film composer father in...