Opinion

With an outpouring of festival and critics awards over the last 12 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations. But in a...

Feminist author Betty Friedan dismissed the critical and popular success of Silence of the Lambs by calling it a film about “the evisceration, the skinning alive of women.” On the surface, her disgust is...

Tangled - Disney’s 50th animated feature, and the film that kick-started the studio’s ‘Revival’ period - turns 10 years old this month. In the decade since its release the studio has gone from strength...

Eight years ago, Kevin Porter posted a video entitled “Sorkinisms – A Supercut”. Over 1.5 million people have watched this video which features different Aaron Sorkin-penned characters uttering the same...

The role of the female within horror cinema has always been a complex and hotly debated topic. Some argue that the frequent depiction of the monstrous female - most commonly realised through the figure of the...

Few directors can boast a more diverse filmography than Brian De Palma. The legendary filmmaker’s work has stretched from taut psychological thrillers to disturbing horrors and big budget action vehicles....

Blade Runner's science fiction cyberpunk world is anchored in the classic noir genre’s sombre aesthetics. But it also subverts them. The film combines urban decay in the high-tech metropolis of a futuristic...

Disney’s 1994 The Lion King is full of life, death, and the harmony in between. At a tight 89 minutes, it never runs out of steam, and its colour palette is as vibrant as its song book. Part of the "Big...

So you're a director, you've made your genre-defining debut picture, and now it's time to convince the viewing public that your film blows the other cinematic dross out of the water. But how do you prove it?...

Tenet is just around the corner (although the corner keeps getting further away), fuelling cineaste hopes that this year won’t be a total cinematic write-off. And yet, the hype just doesn't seem to be there....

It may feel like a lifetime ago now but it was only back in February when Jane Fonda opened that golden envelope and sent the film world into rapture. The cinematic sensation of 2019, Parasite became the...

The Holocaust is, without a doubt, the toughest topic to discuss in modern history. The mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War Two was a defining moment in the history of mankind:...

If films are to be believed, then it appears that most of us have basically gone celibate these days. Take a look at the BBFC’s classifications for the last few years and you’ll find a swift decline in the...

It’s no coincidence that Tenet will likely be the film leading the charge back into cinemas this summer. Its director, Christopher Nolan, is a staunch defender of the cinematic experience, and perhaps the...

It's fair to say that few writers have captured the peaks and troughs of modern love quite like Sally Rooney. The Dublin-based writer is something of a sensation in the literary world, her writing driven by a...