Jake Gyllenhaal

“Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?” “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?” Donnie Darko is the type of film that reminds me of school. Not simply due to the setting, or because of the man in the giant bunny suit (long story),…

“Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining.” Maybe that’s true but Velvet Buzzsaw – the new Netflix horror-satire from Nightcrawler writer/director Dan Gilroy – doesn’t have any right to say it. The film, although visually…

Adapting a book must feel like a safe space for actors who want to try their hand at writing and directing. You’re given a source material that can act as a foundation, something that must not feel so daunting as filming an original,…

David Gordon Green’s Stronger is a film that understands the messy reality behind society’s ability to cultivate heroes in the aftermath of obscene tragedy. Average men and women are so often thrust into the spotlight and forced onto…

Revisiting Nightcrawler to write this piece was tough. When I first saw the film, my predominant feeling was revulsion. I was disturbed. But thinking about it now, that’s an interesting choice for a film to make. This, along with recent…

The police procedural drama film has been around since the first motion-picture camera was invented. From Dirty Harry to TV’s The Bill right up to 2017’s Patriot’s Day the police procedural has always followed a formula. In March 2007…

Watching Nocturnal Animals, even without knowledge of its director Tom Ford’s public persona, one could figure he is involved in fashion design. Every frame of his latest looks stylised, as if each minute detail – from the extravagant…

Source Code (2011) Dir. Duncan Jones Duncan Jones (director of the fantastic Moon (2009) and son of David Bowie) directs this sci-fi version of Groundhog Day (without the funny) about a soldier (Jake Gyllenhall) repeating the same…

'On TV it looks so real'. Nightcrawler is a queasy thriller cum satire. It has Jake Gyllenhall being creepy again which is great to see. He's genuinely terrifying as an amoral lunatic who speaks in a mixture of self-help jargon…