News of the World is a preposterously, epically bad film. I know, it's just, like, your opinion, man. Well, it is, but let's examine the...

Mank, in its audacity to tackle a myth, is both supremely engaging and infuriatingly defective. It manages to be grand and banal at the...

USA. In a few months leading up to the presidential election, an African American is brutally murdered. There is no end to senseless...

John Saxon – what can you say about a man who beat Marlon Brando in an arm-wrestling match, pulled a knife on Burt Lancaster, presided...

The new Austrian film, The Ground Beneath My Feet (TGBMF), is an intense study of a woman’s struggle to protect her identity in a sterile...

Conrad Travel is proud to present our latest package tour: The All-inclusive Apocalypse Experience. We start in Saigon, where you will be...

San Francisco, circa 1997. I'm working on something under a deadline. It's a quiet Sunday morning, I can get this thing done. The fog...

Maborosi is one of the most assured first films ever. As if Hirokazu Kore-eda came out of the gate a fully formed stylist, with an...

The ground was primed: I had been recently voted the school clown by our principal. My reputation was based mostly on slapstick – banging...

Cruising (1980) is my favourite Al Pacino picture, as well as my second favourite William Friedkin film after Sorcerer (1977). Cruising...

Blue Velvet has a perfect cast – David Lynch has a brilliant ability to find just the right actors, from the leads to the extras. His...

At Eternity’s Gate probably doesn't deserve too much attention. If anything, it offers a visceral depiction of the painting craft itself...

Uncut Gems is as close as we get to the neo-noir crime jewels of the 1970s. There are hints of Toback's Fingers (1978) and Schrader...

Bibi Andersson - the subject of the most disturbingly beautiful shot in history of cinema just faded to black. Ingmar Bergman has always...

Tullio Crali, a relative late-comer to Futurism, picked up flying as a teenager. Unlike some of his older aeropittura colleagues, his...

For newcomers to Fellini only: Much has been written recently about La Dolce Vita – and deservingly so. But if you haven't experienced...

Hauer exuded unbelievable charisma with a dose of mischief, like a favourite but petulant child who knew he could get away with anything....

Manga, especially of the much maligned hentai variety, has its roots in the art of shunga, a highly erotic, sometimes pornographic type...

Not many people realise what Bruce Lee represented back in his day. His first TV show in the US, The Green Hornet (1966, known as The...

Our playground was an asphalt patch between two concrete slabs of housing blocks. From that petrified soil rose iron skeletons of swings,...