Zodiac (2007)

There are very few films I can watch again and again. Se7en is one of them. Zodiac is another. I love…

The Silence (2010)

This excellent police procedural thriller from Germany assembles a group of fully fleshed-out and highly interesting characters, and drops them into…

Somehow, for me, Jacob’s Ladder has always gone hand-in-hand with Angel Heart (1987). Maybe director Adrian Lyne and writer Bruce Joel Rubin were…

Is there any limit to the fun you can have watching a movie! Quentin Tarantino keeps banging out hit after…

We have already reviewed my all-time favourite noir, The Grifters (1990), the film adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1963 novel. Thompson’s…

This is an extraordinary film based on the extraordinary memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby, well-known in France as a journalist, author, and…

Michael Cera – from Juno (2007) fame – leads the cast in this fabulously fun and sweet movie about rock…

If a director can take a subject which I could not care less about and enthral me for two hours,…

Following the incredibly sad loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman, I present this review of this amazing film so that you…

I like to watch films without knowing anything about the plot beforehand. This means I get to fully enjoy every…

Argentine film director/screenwriter Gaspar Noé is the man who has brought us I Stand Alone (1998), Irréversible (2002) and Enter the Void…

2013 was a bumper year for well-made films. One of the best of these is Rush, a biopic which documents…