Analysis

The release of Some Kind of Beautiful on 25th September sees a 62 year-old Pierce Brosnan paired with both Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek – 34 and 49 years old respectively. This kind of gendered age gap...

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly the moment in which Tom Hardy transitioned from the dependable, somewhat memorable supporting actor of Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down and various Brit-crime films to...

The best actors are the ones that lose themselves so completely in a role that we barely recognise them anymore. It’s a hard enough task with only one character to play, so anyone who can pull it off...

What constitutes a parody film? This is an interesting question. If a film takes a set of tropes and engages with them academically, as in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and Robert Altman's The...

If you had to define the comedy of the last 15 years with one name, that name would be Judd Apatow. A sure sign of his dominance is in Indiewire’s recent list of the 25 Best Comedies of the 21st Century So...

Had she been alive today, the great Ingrid Bergman would be turning 100 this month. Bergman was a unique character in the Golden Age of Hollywood; in the '30s, Hollywood starlets were sassy, sexy, and...

The career trajectory of Zac Efron is a weird one. After reaching teen super-stardom aged just 18 with the briefly world-dominating High School Musical franchise, some questionable role choices and several...

Some films are great because of brilliant cinematography, attention to the play of light and shadow, or powerful acting. Other films burrow deep into our collective psyche and reveal to us something of...

About halfway through Amy Schumer's breakout debut Trainwreck, her protagonist (also named Amy) explains to her sister that she's terrified of falling for her romantic lead because, in her experience of...

The middle of the summer blockbuster season seems an appropriate time to look back at a film which rebelled against so many of that genre’s defining traits. 10 years ago, Shane Carruth’s sci-fi Primer was...

For those of us born Millennials or Generation Y-ers, it seems as if Steve Martin was just always there. Now that the comedy legend has racked up his 70th year on the planet, it might be just as apt to ask...

If there's one thing Tim Burton's excellent at, it's directing films. Equally, if there's one thing Tim Burton's terrible at... it's directing films. 30 years since his feature debut, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,...

“Nowadays they're all a little serious for my tastes… Give me a far-fetched, theatrical plot any day.” Watching a suave, besuited Colin Firth decimate a church full of bigots to the sounds of Lynyrd...

This feature contains mild spoilers for The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The primary topic of discussion surrounding the release of Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl has been its...

Greta Gerwig is probably still best known to most for her flawless lead performance in 2013’s Frances Ha, though she has far more strings to her bow than the charmingly clumsy, down-on-her-luck Frances. As...