Film

Ah, summer camp. Don’t we all remember our first day, when the camp councillors somehow knew our name and focused solely on us despite all the other kids arriving? And the group leaders who taught us “black man handshakes” before everyone…

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…

Godzilla may be king of the monsters but this sequel to the 2014 American reboot of the legendary Japanese franchise is king of the monster movies. That does not mean the best. When I say 'king' I mean more in the context of a king-sized…

The Russian mafia killed his dog. He killed all of them. That was the simple, often joked about premise of the first John Wick. A slickly made 2014 thriller with a sense of humour and a brilliantly propulsive plot, it endeared itself to…

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…

The list of Asian action films is long and exhaustive. This means you must do something special with the form in order to stand out. Le Van Kiet's Furie, the first Vietnamese film to be released in America, does nothing special but it’s an…

On the grand scale of fucked up films from Oldboy through to Audition right up to Saló, or 120 Days of Sodom Richard Shepard’s Netflix nightmare The Perfection sits comfortably between the latter two of the above three. For a long time the…

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…