Nostalgia

Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Nearly 150 years after Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in...

The conclusion to a second X-Men franchise is upon us. 2011’s X-Men: First Class sent us back to the swinging sixties with Charles Xavier and his groovy mutations and now it comes to a head in X-Men:...

Let's face it: it seems highly unlikely that anyone we know from Cloverfield is going to be in 10 Cloverfield Lane. Most of the characters end up certifiably or almost certainly dead, and talk of the new movie...

In Men With Brooms, a curling team reunites with the help of Leslie Nielsen, as they attempt to win the ‘Golden Broom’ tournament. Or, as the DVD blurb describes it: “A comedic journey which takes...

  David O. Russell’s Accidental Love, a long-gestating car crash of a production infamously daubed with a pseudonym of shame rather than Russell’s name, was screaming out for admission into the...

Cult films often happen by accident and can acquire a following without much explanation. When we latch onto a film we often experience a feeling of community by sharing a way of looking at the world. Films...

Pretty in Pink was the first John Hughes script to be produced following his cult favourite The Breakfast Club. Thirty years on Hughes is remembered by many as the godfather of the golden age of teen drama,...

The late Nora Ephron was the undisputed queen of the romantic comedy. Her screenplays for such classics as When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail were sharp and insightful, and perfectly encapsulated the...

You know why Michael Bay’s 11 films have grossed over $5.5 billion? People keep watching them. Why? This exportable, 'fun', larger-than-life director is making the movies no one else will or can. He’s the...

“I was looking for the Great Beauty… but… I didn’t find it.” So says the aging and ennui-ridden Jep, when asked why he didn’t make more of his life in the artful and exquisite The Great Beauty. On...

“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?” It’s been said so many times...

In 1989, a film about two friends forever raised the bar for the romantic comedy genre. When Harry Met Sally… posed the question: “Can men and women ever just be friends or does sex always get in the...

What would you guess, critically speaking (insofar as these things can be quantified), is considered the best-received film trilogy of all time? Indiana Jones? Diminishing returns and the fact that the...

Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary feature film that tells the incredible story of Philippe Petit, a French wire walker who, in August 1974, walked 1350 feet in the air between the newly constructed Twin Towers...

We’re not going to pretend that Prometheus wasn’t a sizable disappointment – it was. However in the wake of Mr. Scott’s latest trip into space with The Martian, will posterity begin to look more...