While the final season of Breaking Bad was airing in summer 2013, AMC were heavily promoting a show called Low Winter Sun starring Mark Strong as a crooked cop that Bad would provide a lead-in for. It’s an old fashioned concept; using a massive show or TV event (often the…

They’re the most popular source of screen entertainment on the planet… but how many of the big hitters are actually any good? From Sam Raimi to Chris Nolan to, ugh, even Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon, some filmmakers have managed to squeeze solid material from the comic-book movie phenomenon. …

The summer is chugging along at a perfectly okay pace for movies, with mostly dull blockbusters and the occasional Jordan Peele treat on the calendar. But the later months of the year offer a much more appetising selection of big screen (and, in some cases, streaming) delights: new period epics…

I will always remember the summer The Dark Knight Rises was released as an unfathomable build-up of hysteria for this excitable 14-year old followed by a massive dose of reality. …

Clint Eastwood announces the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture… it’s The Godfather! Al Ruddy jumps from his seat and parades to the stage, a mountain of applause on either side of him, a spotlight lighting his path. It’s a Chariots of Fire moment, a triumph for artistic integrity…

Trying to claim Arcade Fire are masters of thematic subtlety would be as futile as trying to define the exact type of music they make (most categorisations would claim “Alternative Rock”). Their big religion album had a bible on the cover, their suburb album had a garage door, they included…

Well, I haven’t done this in quite a while. It was 2017 when I last published an annotated list of my favourite movies — that one had 500 on it! — and my taste has changed a lot since then. Many of the films at the top remain the same…

It’s that time of year again! Sunday marks the most unexciting Oscars in a generation as a group of really, really unremarkable films compete for gold. After an above-average 2021 awards that rewarded excellent films like Nomadland and The Father, we’re back on the mediocrity buzz with CODA, The Power…