Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]
The 17-year-old Judy Garland gives a knockout, wizard performance in the 1939 gem The Wizard of Oz as the Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who sprinkles a special kind of fairy dust on her magical journey […]
Often unbearably tense and frequently hilarious, Quentin Tarantino’s second film, following his greatly admired 1992 cult hit Reservoir Dogs, is still his masterpiece. Tarantino’s brilliantly inventive and exuberant direction of his ultra-smart, sadistically violent 1994 […]
The writer of Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, Steven Knight, makes his director debut in this typical, would-be smart London low-life thriller starring Jason Statham – so you know exactly what to expect. Statham […]
‘I wanted to change the hearts and minds of people,’ says Billie Jean King. And this is how she did it. The Battle of the Sexes is a surprisingly excellent and entertaining documentary about 29-year-old […]
Something wicked this way comes! Must-see monster movie The Relic (1997). Something wicked this way comes! A now-missing anthropologist investigating the culture of lost tribes has mysteriously sent crates of leaves from the Amazon jungle […]
‘My father was a very big man. All his life he wore a black moustache and when it turned grey he used a small brush, such as ladies use for their eyes – mascara!’ You […]
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