Motormouth Marty Mauser is a grade-A shit heel. A 1950s hustler with a tommy gun delivery who won’t take no for an answer. He’s a lithe, wiry, fuck stick, spidering his way through New York city...
Ben McCann, Adelaide University Catherine O’Hara, the beloved actor and comedian who has died aged 71, occupied that rare position in contemporary screen culture: a comic actor, a cult figure and a...
Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) is a supernatural horror film about a young Serbian woman, Irena (Simone Simon), who believes, based on the lore of the area she grew up in, that she'll turn into...
It’s the end of the year and it’s time to take stock. Or, if you’re like me, it’s time to curl up and let the universe happen to you. This is my response to one of the best movies about...
Faith is always on shaky ground. You might say that back in the good (or bad) old days, faith had more muscle. You could get burned at the stake for questioning your faith - or at least be run out of...
As a writer, I’ll be the first to say it - writers are kind of boring. Especially when someone is trying to feature us on television. What viewer really wants to see someone agonizing over their...
“Bravely seek out joy, even when it’s hard.” This is one of the many great lines from the second season of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, and I’ve been sitting with it for a few days. I think...
Watching Dead Of Winter is a tense 98 minutes in the cinema, and moments of relief are few and far between. Emma Thompson is stunning as Barb, who sets out to Lake Hilda during a snowstorm and...
Like the devastating impact of climate change, the cold civil war being fought in America heats up incrementally degree by degree. The constant pressure applied to the body politic by the flickering...
Even in sepia Robert Redford’s eyes are Pacific blue. Californian azure. The truth and the lie. He’s the Santa Monica pretty boy no one wanted for Sundance; that’s no cinematic legend playing...
