Features

How Twelve Monkeys built on the legacy of La Jetée and Vertigo

By Adam Scovell

Themes of memory and death lie at the heart of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian time travel saga.

Panos Cosmatos: ‘Nicolas Cage is a very special creature’

By Kieran Gardner

The Italian-Canadian filmmaker on the making of his heavy metal psycho-horror, Mandy, and working his one of his acting heroes.

David Fincher’s World War Z sequel will begin production next year

By Kieran Gardner

Brad Pitt is set to reprise his role in the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s apocalyptic zombie horror.

The Fallen Idol is one of the great films about the loss of childhood innocence

By Adam Scovell

Carol Reed’s 1948 classic captures the transition to adulthood in all its contradictions and hypocrisies.

Mogwai on how to turn a film score into an album

By Paul Weedon

Guitarist Stuart Braithwaite reflects on the band’s latest original score for the sci-fi action movie Kin.

Cheap Thrills: In Praise of The Evil Dead

By Anton Bitel

On the envelope-pushing effects work of Sam Raimi’s hand-tooled gorefest, set for re-release this Halloween.

Just Keep Living – In praise of Dazed and Confused at 25

By Stephen Puddicombe

Richard Linklater’s seminal high school movie is the ultimate endorsement of living in the moment.

Discover the deranged melodrama of this maternal horror

By Anton Bitel

Ted Post’s 1973 film The Baby takes the notion of the dysfunctional family to a whole other level.

The psychosexual pleasures of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers

By Adam Scovell

The director’s tale of twin gynecologists is a gory study of the relationship between the physical and mental self.

Where Eagles Dare marked a turning point for Hollywood action

By Mark Allison

The film’s radical approach to violence and gender politics was perfectly pitched for the counter-culture generation.

Maniac review: Mesmerising character work in a retrofuturistic setting

By Roxanne Sancto

Emma Stone and Jonah Hill sign up for a mind-bending drug trial in Cary Fukunaga’s immersive miniseries.

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