Reel Classic: Sleeper (1973)
Think police states, depersonalised mechanised-sex, and robots aren’t the stuff of joyous slapstick? Let Woody Allen’s Sleeper prove you wrong.
Think police states, depersonalised mechanised-sex, and robots aren’t the stuff of joyous slapstick? Let Woody Allen’s Sleeper prove you wrong.
Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes play the parents of two missing children in this often chilling vision of Australia through the looking glass.
While reasonably entertaining, Woman in Gold is unmoving and formulaic in its attempt to ram home sentiment.
Psychologically fascinating and heartbreaking, Stations of the Cross is a mesmerising critique of fundamentalist Christianity. Our review is here…
This is where a decade of film noir reaches its apotheosis, where the romance ends in a snub. This, ladies and gentlemen, is The Third Man.
Testament of Youth’s effectiveness is severely diminished by its resemblance to a bland BBC costume drama, the sort you’ve seen too many times before…
Lengthy silences, anatomical fetishizing, sexual cannibalism. A discomfiting film that confounds genre, ‘Trouble Every Day’ is our latest Hidden Gem…
It Follows excels is in not denouncing the imagination of its audience, but by allowing it to be an active participant in the realm of the macabre…
One of the first things you notice on the DVD cover for the BFI’s restored edition of Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End is John Moulder Brown’s bared buttocks. Beneath him is the beautiful Jane Asher, more pleased than you’ll remember her
Two Days, One Night “is a movie that fails to supersede its aesthetic or inadvertently perpetuate substance.” Our review is here…