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Ever since Stanley Kubrick turned the sci-fi film into an art form, the rise of the intelligent sci-fi thriller - more cerebral than shoot-em-up - has been slow but steady. Now Christopher Nolan, the king of...

Receiving that little golden statue is seen as the pinnacle of any actor's career. Post-Oscar, the likes of Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis and Audrey Hepburn all continue(d) to achieve great success but for...

Everybody loves the movies. The art of cinema captivates every age, race, gender of human kind. For some, the infatuation with the moving image cannot be shaken and the ties of affection shape our past,...

Considered – even by its many admirers – the huge splitter of opinions in Charlie Kaufman’s oeuvre, his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York is a sprawling, deranged masterpiece in which raw, naked...

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...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is without doubt the most ambitious film of 2014. Steven Spielberg’s version might just have been better. If you’ve read anything about Nolan’s space epic 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...

I first saw Life of Pi in immersive, delicate and dreamlike 3-D, and left the cinema enraptured by the story I’d seen. The spectacle of the film offered adventure, emotion, allegorical insight, and stunning...

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...

For those who recognise the name, Julie Taymor is synonymous with bright, striking and innovative visual spectaculars. A fan of masks, large puppets and creating eye-catching images, Taymor’s work is always...

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...

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. That click and whir of clocks is laced throughout TiMER (2009), whether it's in the jangling of its tinkly soundtrack or the details of its mise-en-scene. It's an appropriate "tick"...

While far from being critically slammed, 2011’s The Help didn’t quite achieve the kind of hype or awards success that can now be expected from Autumn/Winter releases tackling themes of racism and black...