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Pretentious debates regarding the future of cinema, reports of boos and snide critics’ comments, weird photos of Nicole Kidman kissing the top of her young co-star Elle Fanning’s head – yes, it’s that time of year. Cannes 2017! To have a…

Seasoned genre film critic John Kenneth Muir once suggested that Ridley Scott's much maligned 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus had suffered a “death by a thousand nitpicks.”  There is no doubt that Prometheus suffered the full wrath of a…

A lot of well regarded, lasting films were released 10 years ago. No Country for Old Men, Zodiac, The Assassination of Jesse James, There Will Be Blood, Superbad, Persepolis and many others all celebrate their decade anniversary this year.…

I'm already forgetting this film. Sleepless tells the story of a heist gone wrong in such a rote way that it feels like it's daring me to remember any of it. Sitting down to write a review of this, just over 24 hours after watching it, I…

15 years ago, a handsome computer-generated poster invited me to go for the ultimate spin. As a child, the first thing that delighted me about that first tantalising image of Spider-Man was how perfectly similar to his comics counterpart he…

The Promise is a very traditional tale – a love story which plays out against an important period of history. Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) plays Michael, an…

No matter the continent or time period one should never get involved in psychosexual mind games with posh people. It'll only lead to some kind of exquisite grief. Anyone familiar with Park Chan Wook's work will know that his films…

Premises rarely come more intriguing than that of Netflix’s The Discovery. Robert Redford plays Thomas Harbour, a scientist who discovers that there is an afterlife. He has managed to track a signal leaving the human body in death,…

The best of the 19th century American poets, Emily Dickinson’s greatest artistic strength and most intolerable social weakness were one in the same; non-conformity. This is the central struggle at the heart of Terence Davies’ A Quiet…

Not long after the release of quasi-biopic Jackie comes Neruda, another film by the director Pablo Larrain centring upon a similarly renowned true-life personality. Set in 1948 Chile, the drama focuses upon the persecution and subsequent…