Nostalgia

Perhaps it’s a sign of how truly apocalyptic 2016 has felt that the year ends with two science-fiction thrillers, turning the lens away from the real dilemmas to focus on something a little more...

“I think she’s delightful. She looks like a little piece of cake.” Marie Antoinette never did say "Let them eat cake", but that didn’t stop Sofia Coppola from whipping up a movie dusted in...

Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell Director: Timur Bekmambetov Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith Estimated Budget: $100 million US Gross: $116.4 million From the...

Cast your mind back to the hazy days of the late noughties. Judd Apatow had been pretty much owning the blockbuster comedy genre with The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad - the latter of which...

Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton Director: Tony Gilroy Writers: Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy Estimated Budget: $125 million US Gross: $113 million “There was never just one”, the...

Picture the scene: it’s March of this year. Warner Bros. executives are sitting in a conference room. The atmosphere is chilly, and it’s not the air-con. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film decades...

Everyone has at least one film they saw as a child that has stuck with them ever since. In most cases it's because they brought you so much enjoyment (and you probably watched them far too many times). But in...

2016 has some terrible writers. No one’s been found in the shower (yet) to reveal this was all a dream. Deaths, nasty politics, economic and social breakdowns; our flames of joy are being extinguished with...

“Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.” Even now, 43 years after its release, shocks are something Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man certainly provides. Speaking...

With the Ryan Gosling-led Drive, Nicholas Winding Refn managed to make not only an arthouse critical darling, but a breakout cult hit that struck a chord with mainstream audiences. Naturally his followup, Only...

Today marks 30 years since Jim Henson’s initially slighted, but since lauded, masterpiece Labyrinth was released in cinemas in America. At the risk of sounding slightly hyperbolic, this was a moment in...

It's shockingly now 20 years since the human race (see: America) saved the world from that pesky alien scum on the 4th of July. Yet Hollywood - the fools - have let the aliens come back, with the new...

At first glance, the awarding of the 2010 Palme d'Or - that most prestigious of film prizes - to the Thai dark horse Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives seemed a left-field choice to say the least....

  Close your eyes. Picture Egypt. What can you see? The golden sands of the desert, the glittering azure waters of the Nile, the sun reflecting off the wings of a 10ft tall falcon robot as it...

When Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was released in 1986 Roger Ebert described the eponymous hero as ‘a teenager who skips school so he can help his best friend win some self-respect’. Not everyone considered...