Film

Supernatural creatures walk among us, or at least in some TV shows they do. Bringing the fantastic into the modern world is a popular genre these days. We’ve touched on it many times before, such as when we looked at the Jeoseung Saja. A…

Jaime Reyes is a character that is often overlooked by casual superhero fans — a young man that is somewhere between Venom, Iron Man and Spider-man, and with a coming-of-age story that is both beautiful and universally understood. In Blue…

From the very beginning the connections between early-century espionage and male homosexuality are made clear in Ungentle. After mulling over when he became a traitor, the enigmatic narrator notes that “Deceit is an English game.” Indeed,…

If contemporary horror is anything to go by, the kids are not alright. The likes of the Unfriended series, It Follows, and Bodies Bodies Bodies have all painted a picture of youth bleak enough to make Edward Munch blush. In the worlds of…

“Watcha reading about?” “Amputation”“For work?”“No. Just for fun” May was a film that was a teenage favourite of mine. As a strange kid I could relate to May’s social awkwardness. Plus I used to show it to goth girls to try…

Edgar Wright’s The World’s End released to mass confusion in 2013. As a follow-up to cult classic Shaun of the Dead and box-office smash Hot Fuzz, it failed to capture the mainstream success or critical adoration…

Quentin Tarantino has written a book of film criticism that looks like a memoir, and sounds like the script for a one-man show he never got around to making (and which nobody else would). Cinema Speculation is a chatty, provocative,…

It would have been easy to make Pacific Rim a dumb action movie. It would have been easy to fill it with stock characters, stereotypes and shoddy CGI. But making Pacific Rim wasn’t easy. It was hard for Guillermo del Toro to take…

On paper, Laura McGann's The Deepest Breath fits neatly into the recent trend of documentaries about thrill-seekers pushing it to the limit – there’s a sprinkle of Free Solo (2018) with a dash of Fire of Love (2022). The experience,…

Despicable Me 2 turns ten years old this year, and in the tradition of animated anniversaries, we'll be taking a look at it here. The thing with this movie is that I had never seen it before, and having only seen the original once, I had…