It Ends tackles the futility of becoming an adult in 21st-century America: whether you work hard or check out, the results are largely the same. The vicious circle of student loans and the pressure to...

“You’ve been in my life so long I can’t remember anything else.” I’ve long held the belief that Alien³ is underrated: the fan backlash after they were presented with a bleak, ugly finale after the cro...

We visit Russia, Cambodia, and Madagascar in search of lessons you won't learn at American Top Team.

The first hour of this is immense: a Korean Fury Road where the action is intense, the worldbuilding masterful, and the tension built perfectly. The second section of the film allows us to catch our b...

Somewhat brilliant that ‘Dirt In The Gate’—a fantastic group that champions film preservation and frequently screens original prints, and who I’ve supported for years at this point—discovered by chanc...

Gary Busey is fucking electric in this. I’ve reviewed it before, but with just a couple of tweaks (the villain reveal is needlessly foreshadowed when it would’ve had more punch when it’s truly reveale...

The only Matt Johnson feature I hadn’t seen yet, and it was the first one I’d ever heard of. He is a master at making films about filmmaking, but this has one fatal flaw that befalls a lot of found-fo...

Really not very good at all: a film composed of many things you’ve seen elsewhere, Easter eggs for fans of the games, a protagonist with a very annoying and punchable face, and which all add up to a f...

My Dad had incredible instincts when some twenty years ago, he brought home a triple-DVD set of Violent Cop, Boiling Point and Sonatine. All we knew about ‘Beat’ Takeshi at that point was that he’d be...

Amongst the many pointless horror remakes that came about in the 2000s (driven by Platinum Dunes for the most part), there were at least a handful that justified their existence, none more so than Ale...

Hubris and deceit prove man’s downfall here, the mist-drenched mountainsides providing perhaps the most atmospheric landscape ever captured on celluloid? The climactic death scene may be the greatest ...

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Kobayashi’s rumination on post-war Japan and its displaced soldiers plays out like a courtroom drama for much of it, with the Iyi clan cross-examining weary and seemingly suicidal ronin. The glacial p...

With its rejection of AI and focus on workers rights Alien has never been more relevant. Crucially it’s still terrifying.

An overlong film because it is aggressively dumb and its dummy characters keep extending proceedings by doing stupid shit constantly. But it is fine and has some interesting visuals. I’ve only seen Ye...

I’ve put this off for 20 years: just too stressful to consider watching it. Not my idea of a good time and have read plenty of books and seen enough documentaries that a fictionalised version of event...

The Sky Original branding gave me pause for thought and this obviously shot in England (standing in for Thailand!) Statham vehicle does have a somewhat cheap, TV look most of the time, visually indist...

Musical anachronisms in films send me for a loop, but the fact Matt Johnson and longtime editor Curt Lobb used The Strokes’ ‘Sometimes’ to cross into a time jump was absolute perfection. As usual, Joh...