Analysis

What a year 2020 has been. Thankfully ours is not to reason why, so for now let us look for a silver lining somewhere else entirely. 2o20 was an outstanding year for movies. While our industry suffered from...

The greatest films linger in your memory long after the credits have rolled, but there’s a particular power to those we watch as children: impressionable young minds latching onto striking images and twisted...

Revisiting films from Disney’s Golden Age can feel like slipping into a pair of well-worn pyjamas. Cosy, soft and, crucially, familiar. Familiarity is the currency Disney exchanges to win over audiences....

Here comes Atticus Freeman; adventurer, scholar, Chicago South Sider, and monster killer. Atticus is the central character of Lovecraft Country, which is not only presenting stories we’ve never seen from...

Tangled has always had a bit of a mixed reputation. Although cinema-going audiences treated it fairly kindly, it struggled to make back its mammoth budget. Critics shrugged at it - complaining it was a little...

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...

So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...

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...

Fritz Lang created some of the most indelible images in cinema. Most come from his German films: the rotund spacecraft from Woman in the Moon (1929), Peter Lorre’s panicking child-killer branded with a...

You and I have witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as Wyld Stallyns. Yes, that's right, it's time to face the music. The long awaited sequel to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and their...

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?...