Analysis

With Rogue One, the first of the Star Wars Stories proving to be a critical and commercial success, now is the time to look forward to what else Disney might create in this boundless Star Wars universe....

It’s here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2016 has arrived. It’s been an extraordinary year of cinema - despite the troubling situations elsewhere. This was one of the closest years we’ve seen...

Ah, it's that time of year again. Somewhere deep in an airless cavern, a loudspeaker stirs. A poorly-fed intern recoils with fearful anticipation. With a single word from Mr Murdoch, the ceremony is set in...

You may have underestimated The Holiday. You may have thought that a film about two hot women house-swapping and finding love at Christmas isn’t the cinematic masterpiece your heart has been crying out for....

It’s a bit of a cliché to say it’s been a great year in cinema. Every year’s a great year if you’re watching the right films. What’s always certain is that every year, plenty of films don’t get...

I was talking, late last week, to a friend who works at the Independent about the impending release on these shores of Nate Parker's once-heralded The Birth of a Nation. As our general displeasure with the...

A father abandons his family. He lies, cheats and betrays them, spending most of the family fortune. When present, he’s cruel: blunt and caustic with his children, putting them down in painful moments and...

“By any means necessary” – the mantra that often opens Spike Lee’s films – would appear to reflect the director's core beliefs: the absolute necessity of equality for African Americans, by any means...

It’s fair to say that Disney is on something of a roll at the moment. The House of Mouse’s output has been so consistently spectacular of late that some critics have decreed we are living in the “Second...

Mixing hip-hop flair with the samurai ethos, arthouse cool with wild action sequences, and Forest Whitaker with a bunch of birds, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai couldn’t be a stranger,...

Adam Driver is an actor we just keep seeing more of. Ever since his breakout role in Lena Dunham’s Girls, Driver has quietly been gracing our screens in many different roles, culminating in his blockbuster...

To say that Adam Sandler has been poorly received by critics over the years would be something of an understatement. Jack and Jill currently holds the record for the most Razzie awards won in a single night,...

Is Akira Kurosawa the greatest filmmaker of all time? There have certainly been crazier claims than that. Such unimpeachable masterpieces as Drunken Angel, Rashômon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood,...

The release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks J.K. Rowling’s first screenwriting credit. Yet authors adapting their own work for the screen is neither a new nor a particularly rare practice....

What’s the first film that springs to mind when you say the name Logan Lerman? Percy Jackson? Maybe even The Perks of Being a Wallflower? But for some, this name wouldn’t strike any recognition at all....