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COLLAB: Our Favourite Halloween Films
Halloween is a compulsive part of the cinematic calendar, yielding horror icons, jump scares and…
Review: The Power of the Dog – One of the Year’s Best
The closing shot of The Searchers is the most famous and influential shot in the…
Review: The Matrix Resurrections – Visually Fantastic but Far From Perfect
2021 seems to have been a year of skepticism towards blockbusters: there was the Spielberg…
Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home – Fan Service, but Strangely Paced
Given the current troubles facing cinema, perhaps film fans should be thankful that something as…
Review: The Harder They Fall
One of the great lies of Hollywood is that the Old West was white. The…
Review: King Richard
Venus and Serena Williams have a barnstorming 122 singles titles between them. Their careers are…
Review: West Side Story (2021)
Steven Spielberg returns with a musical remake – but does it hit the high notes?
COLLAB: Our Favourite Christmas Films
Along with roast turkey and sprouts, putting out carrots for reindeers and pretending you’re pleased…
In Defence of: Christmas Films
Susanna Robertson-Sheath defends the seasonal joy of Christmas films.
In Defence of: The Amazing Spider-man 2
Ahead of No Way Home, Harry Geeves dusts the cobwebs off TASM 2 and finds some positives.
Hidden Classics: Contact (1997)
In a new series, Harry Geeves shines a light on a great film that feels overlooked for its genre, Contact.
Review: tick, tick… BOOM! – A Definitive Adaptation
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut is “inventively structured” according to Harry Geeves.
Post-Mortem: The Last Duel- It Deserved Better
October proved an immensely successful month for cinema: No Time to Die climbed into the UK’s…
In Criticism Of: Shadow in the Cloud
Kay Miller deconstructs the incoherent Shadow in the Cloud.