Author Nick Evan-Cook

Much like its eponymous antagonist, the Terminator franchise appears to be one that will never die. Since James Cameron's original film revitalised the action genre in 1984 we have been treated to an...

Despite getting off to a slow (wahey!) start, Slow West picks up pace as it craftily builds its world, tone and characters to culminate in a pulsating and well-earned finale. That Slow West is the...

Despite doing nothing wrong formally, Je Suis un Soldat struggles to delve any deeper than the surface in terms of character, motivation and theme. Je Suis un Soldat's portrayal of black market dog-selling...

Edgy, sharp and witty, Dope quickly and confidently does the legwork of establishing its world and characters, but seemingly struggles to know what to do with them once it’s done. Dope is a hilarious...

Funny, bittersweet, heartbreaking and beautiful, Masaan explores its colourful world and its inhabitants' lives with utmost imagination and deftness. Wonderfully balancing the struggles and discoveries of...

A predictably towering performance from Michael Fassbender is excellently supported by Marion Cotillard, and a who’s who cast of the best British actors working today. Biblical in scale, Macbeth is a huge...

A simple story well told, Lamb is a startlingly assured debut feature from writer-director Yaled Zeleke which overcomes the traditional “kids and animals” issue to deliver a warm-hearted and bittersweet...

A brave central performance from Hye-rim Moon goes a small way towards redeeming the broad feeling of frustration left by Su-won Shin’s Madonna. With shades of Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, an interesting...

Brad Bird’s wide-ranging career so far is most remarkable for two reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that despite only having directed four feature films (and only one of these live-action), he has...

Welcome to By The Book, in which we take a look at cinematic adaptations of literary works. This feature is less a review of the merits and shortcomings of the films themselves, rather a study of the films as...

Somewhat overlong and not as incisive as it could be, Cobain: Montage of Heck is nonetheless a satisfying portrait of a troubled genius. Cobain's turbulent story is told mostly through a collage of...

https://youtu.be/s1CIGKiz8xo L.A. comedy scene up-and-comer Andre Hyland's Sundance selected short Funnel succeeds precisely because of its obvious limitations rather than in spite of...

Miyazaki who? Upon the 2013 retirement of visionary director and Studio Ghibli head honcho Hayao Miyazaki, filmgoers could have been forgiven for wondering whether the impossibly high standards the studio...

Kaizen noun: A Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement based on making incremental positive changes on a regular basis. An interesting and admirable concept – one for which there is no close...

https://vimeo.com/groups/4748/videos/8076064 First loves and the fragility of memory are the predominant themes of Ben Briand's 2009 Vimeo treasure; they are shown resplendently and wordlessly through...