Analysis

After three years, Nicolas Winding Refn is back this week with the latest in his brand of visually striking and unsettling cinema. To mark his return, we've been reflecting on Drive, the film that brought...

For one still so young, Elle Fanning's career has been prolific. Having only recently turned 18, Dakota’s younger sister has already racked up 30 movie credits, as well as nine TV appearances. She’s...

Easy Rider. Five Easy Pieces. The Last Picture Show. The Godfather. Badlands. Mean Streets. Serpico. The Parallax View. These are just some of the most iconic and seminal works of the era of what is known as...

If I said the name Emily Blunt to you, what would you think of? Do you think of the way she’s carving a pretty good name for herself in action movies as a woman? The fact that she’s married to John...

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...

The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...

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...

For many, Matteo Garrone’s 2008 Neapolitan crime epic Gommorah ranks alongside Fernando Meirelles’ City of God and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet as a great modern example of the gangster genre. The gritty...

Melissa McCarthy has carved herself quite the lucrative niche in recent years, playing the loud, brash character who will say literally anything to get a laugh. Her latest comedy vehicle The Boss hits UK...

Grandma is an excellent film, featuring an equally excellent performance from the hilarious and hell-raising Lily Tomlin in the titular role. As her pregnant teenage granddaughter Sage, Julia Garner makes a...

At my signal, unleash hell. The above line from Russell Crowe’s most iconic screen role – Maximus in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) – seems a fitting enough emblem for the determined, no-nonsense...

Whit Stillman's new film, Love and Friendship, is notable not just for being such a rarity (being after all his fifth film in 26 years) but also for reuniting the stars of his cult classic The Last Days of...

Ah, Jane Austen – perhaps the only British author who can boast of giving Shakespeare a run for his money in terms of both international profile and popularity. And where timeless personal quandaries and...

Duncan Jones knows how to work within his means. Probably the most popular director that you’ve never heard of, Jones has built a strong cult following through his acclaimed sci-fi features Moon and Source...

It is, perhaps, unlikely that many young actresses at drama school dream of the chance of one day being asked to play an anthropomorphic household cleaning aid, or that said role could become a potential...