Scene Location: ‘Rumble in the Bronx’ / ‘Hung Fan Kui’ (1995)

As a part of the Canadian ‘Hollywood North’, Vancouver is an attractive place to shoot ‘American’ feature films because it … More

Review: ‘Metropolis’ (1927)

Metropolis is both an extravagant cinematic sci-fi classic and a cautionary tale about the whims of commercial taste: it cost … More

Whilst The Jazz Singer can be categorised as a musical, the film is a Hollywood landmark for the talking that … More

Even before one considers the details presented by the labyrinthine plot, Gone with the Wind is an epic Hollywood film … More

In analysing early gangster films, John McCarty and David E Ruth both describe how the actual and fictional Gangsters of … More

Holm’s Independent Cinema is a slight book at 158 pages and so, whilst it may not cover the ground of … More

“Once a man commits himself to murder, he will soon find himself stealing. The next step will be alcoholism, disrespect … More

Steve Buscemi’s first directorial and screenwriting outing trades on the one thing that we know about Steve Buscemi: that he … More

Bryan Singer is best known as the director of The Usual Suspects (1994), and the superhero epics X-Men (2000) and … More

The central conceit of David O Russell’s debut feature that will stay with you after watching the film is that … More

This is the film that should have launched the directorial career of Michel Gondry and built upon the developing reputation … More

Sandwiched between the irreverence of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and the Hollywood romance of Intolerable Cruelty (2003), The … More