Critique: ‘The Hunt for Red October’ (1990)

Between 1989, when The Hunt for Red October was produced, and 1990, when the film was released, the Cold War … More

Critique: ‘The Mighty Ducks’ (1992)

The Mighty Ducks is the first film in a series that spans three live-action films and a corresponding spin-off animated … More

There appears to be an unwritten rule in Hollywood that if you are a movie star, then you must act … More

Hollywood films adapted from video games tend to have one thing in common: the production teams for the film frequently … More

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

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