Review: ‘Metropolis’ (1927)

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

Critique: ‘The Jazz Singer’ (1927)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Straight Out of Brooklyn was made on a budget of less than $500,000 and achieved a domestic gross of $2.7…