Author Tom Bond

Memory is a difficult thing for cinema to dissect. It’s the most opaque, internal process we experience as humans, and therefore wholly unsuited to a medium as visual as film. Countless books that rely on...

Bowie. Rickman. Prince. Zsigmond. Vigoda. Hamilton. Yelchin. Not to mention those outside the film world like Ali, Corbett and Wood. So far, 2016 is being remembered for all the wrong reasons. Here at...

A promising premise – a surprise intervention for a failing marriage – is wasted in this patchy relationship comedy from writer, director and star, Clea DuVall. She gets strong individual performances...

What’s in a name? Not much. Unless that name is Weiner. Directors Kriegman and Steinberg gain unparalleled access to the disgraced dick-pic Democrat as he runs for New York mayor. Their intimate approach...

With today's news appearing to confirm what we all suspected - that Daniel Craig will not return as 007 - who are the best candidates to take over the most coveted role in British film? Tom Hiddleston...

Watching films at home has its own charm. It's a comfortable experience, and one you have complete control over. But there's nothing quite like seeing a film on the big screen, in a room full of other people,...

With the impending X-Men: Apocalypse just around the corner it seems like the perfect time to look back at what the world’s finest mutant franchise has offered us over the years. Today we have Sophie Wing,...

Singer jumps at this second chance to establish the characters he first brought to the screen 16 years ago, unleashing new powers and revisiting old stories with typical invention. This is when he and the film...

Tina Fey deserves better than this film’s trailer, which suggested a woman who went to war because she was single and, when she got there, had a party. She deserves what Whiskey Tango Foxtrot actually...

How do you face death? On your own terms or scrapping every step of the way? It’s a question we have to face more and more often as an ageing population, and one that Truman answers brilliantly. Despite...

With her second feature, Lucile Hadžihalilović crafts a complex and unsettling body horror set on a mysterious island, inhabited only by boys and young women. The strange, symbiotic, maternal...

The tragedy of Scheherazade, which has formed the framework of the stories, finally coalesces to create possibly the most affecting section of all three volumes. She wanders her kingdom, enjoying its beauty...

https://vimeo.com/139853607 This twisted comedy short uses a sci-fi premise to build a strange and hilarious tale of infidelity. An innocent encounter between two strangers – writer Michael Spicer and...

Developing the allegorical structure of Volume 1, Volume 2 offers a more thoughtful approach. Gone are the exploding whales of the opening chapter, though it’s safe to say a streak of animal-based absurdity...

For a certain niche of people in their mid-twenties and younger, a Ratchet & Clank film is a bizarre and nostalgic prospect. Reassuringly, these videogame fan favourites have made it onto the big screen...