Jacques Tati (1907 – 82) is considered one of the greatest movie directors of all time. A scholar of the work of slapstick cinema greats such as W.C. Fields and Buster Keaton, he made a meagre six movies in three decades, each captur  ...more

Kids these days, eh? Always causing trouble, hanging out on street corners. Bit of national service, that’ll sort them out. Whether they’re trying to knife you on the N29, or they’re gibbering away on talk shows with their tampons h  ...more

The Last Exorcist follows Reverend Cotton, a prominent exorcist who loses faith in God after hearing of the accidental suffocating of a child during an exorcism. He sets out to reveal the tricks of his fraudulent trade and allows a camera crew to fil  ...more

We have become so desensitised to violence and gore that it takes a lot for a film to be considered ‘creepy’ these days. So, when I received a film accompanied by a quote from the Guardian claiming it’s ‘one of the creepiest f  ...more

The red haired woman has been huge in popular culture over the last few years, with names such as Florence Welch, La Roux and Lilly Cole gracing our screens and magazines. And not to neglect the male front there is director Romain Gavras and Frank C  ...more

Looks like this time of year is an extra special one for animal abusers. Last week we were graced with the Cat Bin Woman video – since then she’s been found, harassed by a large section of the internet, and apologized. So with that storm   ...more

Very few individuals transcend time as cultural icons of cool but Steve McQueen stakes a claim for being the master. The BFI held a McQueen season to mark the twentieth anniversary of the death of the king of cool whose effortless anti-hero persona   ...more

You’re going to a film screening but you’ll only find out the location a couple of days before. You may not even know what film you’re watching until the opening credits roll. But fear not, your patiencewill be rewarded. With remark  ...more

I never want to live in Missouri. Not even close. And if, for some strange reason, I end up being forced, I never want to live anywhere near the Ozark Mountains. Because Winter’s Bone is set there, and it’s the bleakest landscape I’  ...more