Film Features

“I am insane. And you are my insanity.” - James Cole The past cannot be changed, only the future. This realisation is key to 12 Monkeys. Back in 1995, this fantastical sci-fi, concerned with a virus that wipes out a percentage of humanity…

Kindergarten Cop turns 30 years old this month. In its time it was considered an awkward child: too grim for kids and too pandering for adults. It was, in fact, exactly what it was supposed to be though: the pubescent stage of the…

Some people have standards. Others will watch anything that is tangentially related to Christmas. As you will surely be shocked to be discover, I find myself firmly in the second category. It’s not all bad though: on occasion I'll come…

Rarely equalled, never bettered is a phrase that’s easily used to describe masterpieces. There is no film of its kind better than Heat and, in the rarest case, it has no equals either. The peak, if not the conclusion, of Michael Mann’s…

Flash Gordon is a movie equally ridiculous and cliche driven. Released in 1980, it is one of those films which is so bad and camp it has taken on cult-like status. On paper however, it looks anything but a colourful disaster. Adapted from…

It’s that time of year again. As we live out the final month of a turbulent 2020 we can be thankful that one thing has stayed the same this year: Netflix has delivered their festive flix once again! There’s nothing like a fantastical movie…

"Now the time has come. I put two bullets in my gun. One for me, and one for you. Oh darling, it will be so beautiful." The author Stephen King presented the world with a new nightmare in 1987. A story of horror, isolation and adornment…

The Czech New Wave is this insanely rich torrent of creativity that erupts in the former Czechoslovakia in the tiniest of time frames - roughly 1964-1968. It’s a mayfly of a wave, ephemeral and utterly unique. Seen from a distance it feels…

"So give me a stage, Where this Bull here could rage.." The 1980 classic Raging Bull is one of the greatest biopics of all time. Nowadays we are fed one after another, and the genre is soaked with uneven, unbalanced outings. Above all of…

The announcement that there will soon be a sequel to the 2020 Vin Diesel superhero actioner Bloodshot has mostly been met with bemusement. “Y Tho” is the dominant response expressed through numerous memes. To most it was a failed attempt to…