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While, at first, The Birds is goofy (yes I find youths being assailed by seagulls humorous, sue me) Hitchcok asks us to trust him, to keep watching. He asks the audience to wait until our characters are t their most vulnerable. And then, much like... Read the full review »

This coming of age/horror mish-mash pulls on Don't Look Now and Saint Maud to sprinkle a thin layer of dread over the entire film. Throughout, the bleak Butlins trailer park is cold and empty. At night, it's doused in an orange glow. The central r... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: David Fincher's 'Zodiac,' isn't really a serial killer movie at all (in fact, there's no serial killer in it) - it's more of a journalistic thriller come character study. It focuses on the people trying to catch the real-life "Zodiac... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Like so many great sports films, Robert Rossen's 'The Hustler,' isn't about the game; it merely uses the game as a vehicle to explore one obsessive player. Here we follow pool hustler Eddie (Paul Newman), and in the first half of the... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The likes of Mean Streets and The Godfather made it fashionable for gangster movies to delve into, empathise with and drool over the mobster characters themselves, but Brian de Palma's 'The Untouchables,' perfectly recognises their e... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There's a common conception that movie making is like mixing a bunch of ingredients together and hoping they'll stick, but that the more those ingredients contrast, the harder it is to get right. Surely if you're blending different g... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The first 'American Pie,' dodged the overtly crass by having its characters realise that sex isn't really the important thing in the end, so dragging a successful sequel out of that was never going to be easy as you still need some s... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: A film about a group of teenage boys forming a pact to lose their virginity in the summer before college could have very easily become a disgusting, misogynist mess, but 'American Pie,' just dodges that bullet by continually ridiculi... Read the full review »

As the next installment within the realms of the Happy Death Day universe, I was left somewhat mortified for awhile to admit that “Freaky” was even part of that same universe let alone from the same director Christopher Landon, especially if i... Read the full review »