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“Stars collide, worlds divide/What a pretty piece of flesh/You are a pretty piece of flesh”  —One Inch Punch, 'Pretty Piece of Flesh' There are films that are difficult to write about. Sometimes...

In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...

Poor Roger Murtagh wouldn't last long in Hollywood today. Played by Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon movies, the cop was complaining about getting on in years at the tender age of 50 - which makes him a...

If there’s one label that would never fit Terrence Malick as a director, it’s ‘conventional’. From a 20-year wait for a new film between 1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line, to not...

It’s no secret that sport is emotive. But what defines the sports genre? Is it a film where the plot centres around the buildup to a big sporting event? Or is it simply a film that contains a sport? The...

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...

Though she’s been acting for nearly a decade, and doing it very well, Chloë Grace Moretz has always felt like an actor dancing around the edges of stardom. She’s consistently proven herself to be a...

“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...

"Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" You don’t become one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema without doing a few things that make people charitably describe you as being “a few reels short of a...

In A Sinner in Mecca, director Parvez Sharma documents his Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca - knowing that, as an openly gay man, he could be executed just for setting foot in Saudi Arabia. We sat down with Sharma...

This year has brought with it a huge number of (incredibly) long-awaited sequels. We've just witnessed the reopening of Isla Nubar in Jurassic World, next month we'll go back in time for Terminator...

With the rise of on-demand services like Netflix and the ever-growing culture of "binge-watching", the relationship between television and film is becoming increasingly blurred. Shows like House of Cards,...

The idea that the English language has a monopoly in cinema should surprise absolutely nobody. The power of Hollywood meant American culture dominated screens for more than a century, and for as long as there...

HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...

PSA: this piece isn't an argument over whether Stone, Mori, or even Ripley do or don't pass this or that feminist reading. Whilst this writer's opinion is that they do, that particular discussion is already...