Film Features

“The first feminist American director,”- B. Ruby Rich on Russ Meyer. From the late 1950s and up to the end of the 60s, a cinematic tradition arose in America. A genre built on the foundations of sexual innuendo, nudity and smut-laced comedy…

As we approach mid 2019, the year has already given viewers some big superhero spectaculars, worthy Oscar winners, brilliant indies and thought-provoking docs. To celebrate, we asked our film contributors to select their recent favourites.…

While buses everywhere are now emblazoned with the three heads of King Ghidorah squaring off against the King of the Monsters, in the world of 1998, Godzilla and his monstrous friends were not particularly known quantities in the west. The…

It’s 2009 and a punter is in the mood for a horror film. They check the cinema timetable: Drag Me To Hell, directed by Sam Raimi. The Spider-Man guy? Odd choice for a horror film, but it has a cool poster and the trailer looks scary so why…

Marvel studios are often credited with the creation, or at least popularisation of the ‘Cinematic Universe’ craze that has caught on in recent years, and with the release of this month’s Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, Warner Bros’ and…

Rungano Nyoni's I Am Not a Witch is a cautionary fairytale that warns of the dangers of mob mentality and how that can adversely affect individual freedom. A surreal dark comedy that deftly weaves absurdity with tragedy in a deadpan style…

It sucks when you don’t get along with your co-workers. It makes every shift a drag and makes most jobs even worse than they already are. Now imagine your job is hauling 20 million tonnes of ore through deep space with a group of people…

It's hard to fathom that Fox's troubled X-Men series was once the first true Marvel Cinematic Universe. Where once it was a linear exercise in star power (Hugh Jackman), evolving stakes (X2) and diminishing returns (Brett Ratner's…

After the passing of time, the lost souls of Midnight Cowboy still present a glimpse of hopelessness, portrayed and executed with an arcane beauty in one of the most fearless movies of the last century. It is a movie that licks the grime…

“The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.”- Capt. Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen). On May 10 1979, Francis Ford Coppola finally edited down over one-million feet of film to give us his Vietnam War epic…