Analysis

A hundred years on from the outbreak of war in 1914, the mark it left on its descendants is still felt deeply across Europe. The loss of one million men, with thousands of them still buried somewhere in the...

The announcement by Pixar that a fourth instalment of the Toy Story franchise will be released in 2017 has been met with what can only be described as a mixed response. Before we get into the details of the...

Today it’s almost impossible to conceive that in the mid to late 1920s the notion of putting sound to film was received with repudiation, reluctance, and even hostility, even in the immediate aftermath of...

"You think I'm fucking with you; I'm not fucking with you." Just a curt flick of his tongue and Hollywood's golden boy has your attention. This is no hyperbole. Search your mind and truly ponder this...

Halloween is upon us. The nights are drawing in. Our cinemas are haunted by modern horrors such as The Babadook and Annabelle. Fear not, however, for you needn't venture out into the dark to get your scare...

New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...

It could be said that for the last couple of years Matthew McConaughey has stolen the show in just about everything he’s laid his hands upon. It began in the summer of 2012. Joss Whedon had torn up box...

Last month we took a look at the somewhat odd, but not unwelcome, increase in films based on factual events. 221 such films have been released since 2000; 200 were released in the century before that. That...

- In nature, there are boundaries. - The story of Timothy Treadwell is a tale of obsession and a portrait of insanity, two themes that consistently prick up the ears of German director Werner Herzog. For...

Film is now most often perceived as a vehicle for telling stories, but that was not always the case. Despite the fact that key aspects of the narrative film such as scripts, sets, and acting ensembles, had...

Monty Python’s Life of Brian is fabled for many things. From poking fun at organised religion, to serenely encouraging us all to (always) look on the bright side of life, it is a film of many and varied...

“I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you maggots...

Oh 21st Century – we all had such high hopes. Diablo Cody did great work for the quirky gal in all of us, winning an Oscar for Juno in 2007, Julie Delpy has been a fierce whirlwind of creativity since...

“Bill Shakespeare was a wonderful poet but Burt Bacharach he ain’t.” With these words Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates, a name and character more suited to breakfast cereal than high school directing, sets...

According to its audience, Scarlett Johansson's ass-kicker action movie Lucy isn't all that good at a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 45%. Our own Cameron Ward gave it a 3 out of 5. “There to entertain”...