Kurt Russell’s eyes are wired. Those baby blues are ringed with red, the Disney child paranoid, sweating booze and armed to the teeth. Those jump cuts are making us anxious from the off. We’re...
This month over at Five Books For, I’m looking at books that explore the Holocaust from different angles. As living memory recedes, I’ve been thinking about the particular value of literature in...
Over the past few months, we've watched a series of revolutions in cinema history. We've seen Italian Neorealism strip away studio artifice in pursuit of authenticity, explored how Method acting...
If you haven’t seen Daniel Roher’s film Tuner, then you need to remedy that quickly. Leo Woodall is Niki White a former New York musical prodigy turned piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis....
Travel can broaden the mind, but are we doing too much of it? And, when we do, is it causing harm? This is what the documentary film, The Last Tourist, directed by Tyson Sadler, sets out to ask. But...
Thanks to the tremendous box office success of Obsession and Backrooms, the horror industry is experiencing a golden age. August 2026 is shaping up to be a must-see month for any fan of the genre....
For years now, I’ve been hearing complaints from my teenage son that go like this: “Ugh, this building reminds me of the Backrooms.” “Did you HAVE to pick a doctor’s office that’s...
When we were children, flickered in light and held in thrall to the shuddering genius of Ray Harryhausen’s mythical beasts in Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans we could only dare to...
Last month, we left behind the restrained realism of post-war Italy and immersed ourselves in the rich colours of Technicolour spectacle. Films such as The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and Singin' in...
The opening of The Hidden has a sombre, mournful quality to it. Through black and white CCTV we quietly observe the comings and goings of the Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. The bank’s customers...
