Even the most middling cinema can provoke a strong reaction, leave us with questions long after the screening. Knock at the Cabin is one such.…
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At the heart of Space Sweepers is a blunt instrument named Dorothy – a hunted, vulnerable, super-cute innocent discovered aboard a derelict spacecraft. Watching her…
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On its 100 year anniversary, the BBC finds itself endlessly shelled by both sides in the feeble culture war. Each side is somehow convinced that…
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The new Revolver super-deluxe edition received five stars in the Guardian. But what is it about this reissue that is worthy of five stars? Is…
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Terry Gilliam hangs over Jean-Pierre Jeunet/ Marc Caro movies like one of his Holy Grail god cartoons. Or maybe it’s fairer to say that they…
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Some pencils are given away with magazines and break like twigs the moment you press them to paper. Some are gifts from relatives, usually branded…
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There’s a special pleasure in a late night TV viewing of a widely acknowledged horror classic – especially when you know little about it. I…
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Both these movies have extinction events at the core of their worldbuilding. That’s fitting, as both helped exterminate the careers of those involved – the…
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Our Paul’s Glasto set was pretty glorious – if nothing else, just for his astonishing ability to hit the notes, sort of, mostly, in a…
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Tony Scott’s 1986 Top Gun was a fantasy, at least in part. Its ending imagined that US Navy pilots could shoot down Soviet MiGs without…
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