Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder’s scabrous broadside against the yellow press is as lean and mean as a rattlesnake.
Review by Mark Stafford
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We Are the Best!
For all you punkety rockety girls out there, and those who love them: this is your new favourite film, you just don’t know it yet.
Review by Mark Stafford
The Double
Based on Dostoyevsky, Richard Ayoade’s second feature is a bold and intelligent, if very mannered, affair.
Review by Mark Stafford
The 10th Victim
At times it resembles a demented Bond movie where the set designers have taken control, at others it’s like a futuristic offshoot of La Dolce Vita.
Review by Mark Stafford
Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London
Peter Whitehead’s 1967 hour-long documentary catches the British Pop wave at its mod zenith, just before things got a bit more… hairy.
Review by Mark Stafford
Wake in Fright
A welcome restoration of a neglected classic, Ted Kotcheff’s extraordinary film is a circular nightmare with a sunburnt, hungover atmosphere.
Review by Mark Stafford
The Zero Theorem
Terry Gilliam’s latest is restless in its own skin, feeling like a hugely absurdist science-fiction satire trying to fight its way out of a five-hander play.
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John Dies at the End
Your new favourite film. A flip, funny thrill ride full of trippy headfuckery, rubber monsters, snappy dialogue and wild ideas.
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Supernatural
Robert Muller’s 1977 anthology TV series is an honest attempt to revel in the possibilities of the Gothic genre.
Review by Mark Stafford
Dead of Night
The surviving episodes from the legendary BBC horror anthology series offer three tales of emotional complexity and political mindfulness.
Review by Mark Stafford