The latest entry in an ongoing feature in which I will cite all my favorite movies one-by-one, and attempt to explain what makes them so great. This time, it’s the film I may have watched more times than any other: Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco.
The latest entry in an ongoing feature in which I will cite all my favorite movies one-by-one, and attempt to describe what makes them so great. This time, it’s Whit Stillman’s timeless, influential and underseen classic, Metropolitan.
In this new ongoing feature, I cite all my favourite movies one-by-one, and attempt to explain what makes them so great. This time it’s the film I’ve probably cited as my actual favourite more than any other: Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View from 1974.
In this Herald blog, I pick five recent movies that received an overwhelmingly negative reception, and argue for their value. I don’t go too deeply into why they are good, so you’re pretty much just going to have to take my word for it.
To mark the release of The Nice Guys, a torrent of concentrated awesome for Shane Black fans, I cited the five moments from Shane Black movies that most perfectly represent what he offers cinema in this blog for the Herald.
In this interview conducted for the Herald, I chat with Russell Crowe about Shane Black, Ryan Gosling, The Nice Guys and his place in the modern blockbuster landscape.
In this blog for the Herald, I mark the opening of Eddie The Eagle by citing the five most uplifting sports movies that ever were made. According to me. It’s a short list. Lots miss out. But these five are all pretty uplifting.
In this blog entry for the Herald, I ruminate on the stunning CGI seen in Disney’s new live-action version of The Jungle Book, and cite the five best CGI beasts to have come before.
In this blog entry for the Herald, I mark the arrival of the full trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG by looking back at all the movies based on the author’s works.
In this blog entry for the Herald, I look at Pee-wee Herman’s new Judd Apatow-produced Netflix movie Pee-wee’s Big Holiday from the perspective of a die-hard Pee-wee Herman fan. Which is something that I am.